The index page is the page that opens by default when either clicking the “home” button in the Top Bar, or when you visit your SilverBullet’s URL without a page name in the URL.

The default index page’s name is index. You can change it per space in the Dashboard, under Space settings → General → Index page (the older SB_INDEX_PAGE variable in Install/Configuration still works, but is legacy).

How to set a dynamic index page

Some people want to set their index page to be e.g. their daily note, and the daily note changes every... day.

Doing this can be achieved with some Space Lua magic (in the code below we’ve set this to the lua language in order not to actually activate this functionality, in your own copy be sure to use space-lua instead):

local function redirectToCustomIndex()
  if editor.getCurrentPage() == "index" then
    -- Change this to whatever page you want your index page to be
    editor.navigate("Journal/" .. date.today())
  end
end

-- Trigger the above function when the editor is first loaded
event.listen {
  name = "editor:init",
  run = redirectToCustomIndex
}

-- And also when any page is loaded (because it may be the index page)
event.listen {
  name = "editor:pageLoaded",
  run = redirectToCustomIndex
}