Continue where you left off in SilverBullet

Run SilverBullet

Create a folder for your notes and start the server with Docker:

mkdir space
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v $PWD/space:/data -e SB_USER=admin:password \
  ghcr.io/silverbulletmd/silverbullet:latest

Open http://localhost:3000 and sign in with admin and password. That is SilverBullet's own login for the whole server. The Appwrite account you add next is a layer on top of it, for per-person features. See the SilverBullet install docs for other ways to run it.

Create an Appwrite project

Follow the Appwrite quick start up to the point where you have a project and a Web platform:

1. Create a project on Appwrite Cloud or your own instance.
2. Add a Web platform with hostname localhost. Add the hostname you serve SilverBullet from later the same way.
3. Email/Password under Auth → Settings is on by default.

Note the project ID and API endpoint from the Console.

Load Auth UI from a Space Lua block

Create a page called Appwrite in your space. In SilverBullet, open the command palette with Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/, run Page: New, and name it Appwrite. Paste this into it:

# Appwrite sign in

```space-lua
-- priority: 50
local AuthUI = js.import("https://unpkg.com/@getauthui/core@0.1.45").AuthUI

AuthUI.init({
  endpoint = "https://fra.cloud.appwrite.io/v1",
  project = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
  methods = { emailPassword = true },
  branding = { name = "SilverBullet" }
})

local account = AuthUI.getAccount()

-- A button in the top bar: sign in, or open the account screen once signed in
actionButton.define {
  icon = "user",
  description = "Appwrite account",
  run = function()
    if AuthUI.getUser() then AuthUI.open("account") else AuthUI.open() end
  end
}
```

space-lua blocks run on every page load, from any page in the space. js.import() loads the Auth UI module straight from the CDN, and Lua tables are converted to JavaScript objects automatically, so AuthUI.init reads like the JavaScript version. Reload the page with System: Reload (Ctrl+Alt+R) or a browser refresh. A user icon appears in the top bar. Click it and sign up.

Remember the page you are reading

Add this to the same block. SilverBullet fires editor:pageLoaded whenever a page opens; while signed in, store the page name in the user's preferences with account.updatePrefs().

-- Remember the page you are reading
event.listen {
  name = "editor:pageLoaded",
  run = function()
    if AuthUI.getUser() then
      account.updatePrefs({ lastPage = editor.getCurrentPage() })
    end
  end
}

AuthUI.getUser() is nil until the session is known, which also keeps the page a device opens on boot from overwriting a newer value before the sign in resolves.

Open it on sign in

Finally, when a sign in completes, read the preferences back and navigate. Space Lua awaits JavaScript promises for you, so account.getPrefs() returns the object directly.

-- On sign in, continue where you left off on any device
AuthUI.on("signed-in", function(user)
  editor.flashNotification("Signed in as " .. user.email)
  local prefs = account.getPrefs()
  if prefs.lastPage and prefs.lastPage ~= editor.getCurrentPage() then
    editor.navigate(prefs.lastPage)
  end
end)

signed-in fires on every page load that finds a session, not only after the form, so a returning device jumps to the right page without a click.

Try it

1. Reload SilverBullet, sign in, and open any page, for example Ideas.
2. Open http://localhost:3000 in a private window, sign in to SilverBullet with admin, then click the user icon and sign in with your Appwrite account. The editor navigates to Ideas.
3. Open a different page there, go back to the first window, reload, and watch it follow.