How to use Joplin to create a Wiki including Glossary

Hi there,
I would like to consolidate my notes on technical terms and avoid rewriting, repeating text.
Using a Wiki-like Glossray would be helpful.
So I can explain things brief, using technical terms. If you forgot what is behind a term. You simply hover the mouse above the linked term to read it up.
In addtion I can resuse text, if an process is happening in another domain as well, and I don't want to rewrite it.
Last but not least I want to copy filtred Glossary to official documents (only copy paste, manage it only in Joplin).

There are a couple of plugins that could make this work, but one of them is deprecated.

  1. Plugin: Note Link System - #30 by ylc395 to look up linked words, pharagraphed easily without jumping between notes.
  2. Plugin: Extract Paragraphs - #9 by djsudduth
    Text excerpt to avoid repetition (but no auto-update yet, might come soon)
  3. GitHub - JackGruber/joplin-plugin-note-overview: A note overview is created based on the search and the specified fields.
    to filter only glossary notes with a specific tag and extract only the first pharagraph, which contains a very short description of the expression. So you can quickly create a domain-specific glossary and still have everything in one notebook.
  4. Plugin: Embedded Notes
    If you want to reuse full notes
  5. a nice featuer to inlcude Plugin: Spoiler cards to reduce note length (but default styling is so la la la), if your explanation of an expression becomes very (too) detailed.

x-link from Any suggestions on what plugins could be created? - #240 by PackElend

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