I decided at long last to go with Obsidian. But there is something missing. Namely, linking to some concept, and then clicking it to make a page gives an empty page. On Logseq, the relevant linked blocks (and even unlinked blocks) are already populated there.

There are Obsidian plugins which improve on the native backlinks at the end of documents, namely Influx (no more development sadly) and Strange New Worlds. And those are pretty cool, but they don't actually populate a page.

Also, as someone posted on reddit, in Obsidian "There seems to be consensus that 'folders are unnecessarily restrictive', but… that same problem is just moved down to the note-level." This has been my experience as well.

Looking at Logseq, the link handling is great, but indeed it is a bit "clunky" and hard to navigate to information. On the other hand, the idea of daily journal being the only entry and atomic notes is really appealing. You could certainly make a detailed Contents page as they recommend.

Any thoughts on this? I am still leaning toward Obsidian, but the lack of unlinked references not appearing is very annoying - these require a specific search to find. I am aware I could make a tag tree, but this would probably end up worse than a straight folder structure in any other program. Lastly, when you have a topic, say "Obsidan" where you keep Obsidian tips, and then you link that inside pages on some aspect of organizing Obsidan (say "Obsidian for research"), you have the annoying issue that now you have to organize where the "Obsidian" link-page is shown, and the other notes pages. I could go completely flat, but some notes like "Meetings" and "Contacts" surely need some organization, right?

Does anyone have ideas on how to accomplish a more seamless collection and navigation of PKM in Obsidian? Or a compelling reason to use Logseq instead, where notes are interlinked by default but finding them again may be challenging?