#guide

Let’s be clear upfront: your space is your own, you can structure it however you like. That said, over the years a few “best practices” of how to structure your space have emerged.

If you don’t have strong preferences coming in, consider following them.

Flat name space

While SilverBullet will dynamically create Folder|Folders when you use slashes (/) in your page names, the typical SilverBullet user tends to use this feature lightly.

Organization is achieved through incrementally adding Frontmatter and Markdown/Hashtags, rather than investing in a very structured folder structure upfront. This is also why, by default, SilverBullet does not ship with the classic file tree — it would be very boring to look at.

The advantage of this approach is multi-fold:

1. Reduces “decision fatigue”: you create a new page, where should you put it? Answer: top level.
2. Whereas a page can only ever live in a single folder, it can be tagged with an unlimited number of hashtags. This gives more flexibility.

As a result, this means that most content pages tend to live at the “top level” (see this space as an example).

A few exceptions: * Inbox/ for quick notes * Journal/ for journal entries * Library/ for Library|libraries and customizations

These make sense to split out, and keep contained in their own folders, away from other areas of your space.

Frontmatter and tags

When adding a Frontmatter section to a page, it becomes cleaner to move any Markdown/Hashtags you previously put in your page to the tags attribute:

---
role: Data analyst
tags: sometag anothertag
---