[tga]

What turned me off about Joplin was how awkward it was to link to other pages. I might have missed something, but by default I think that takes creating the other page first, then manually copying its id -- way too much clicking, and breaks the focus on what you're writing.

In the end, I ended up using Obsidian (https://obsidian.md). While typing (even in an outside editor), I can just go [[random reference]] -- and that will turn into a link, even if that page doesn't exist yet. When I eventually get to creating the page, it will already have back links from all the places it is used (something else I think Joplin doesn't have).

[rasulkireev]

Agreed. In Joplin internal linking is a pain and that makes it a bad Zettelkasten. However, Joplin is not meant to be that, Joplin is more of an Evernote alternative, which is made for collecting information rather then connecting it. For that Joplin is awesome.

For my Zettelkasten and writing I use Obsidian. They are fantastic in tandem.