Linking is a pain in Blosxom, but I dont' think it's Blosxom's fault. I do, however, wish tools like Blapp would provide some assistance. (That's not fair ... it already does provide assistance, in the form of good drag-and-drop support. I should say I wish it would provide a particular kind of assistance.)

I'm offline a lot, so there are many times when the drag-and-drop doesn't help much. Plus, my blog entries about particular topics tend to cluster together around particular points in time.

So I'd like Blapp to parse the HTML I write and remember a list of "recent links" that I've used. The first time I link to a particular page, I would have to do it manually, or drag it in. But after that, Blapp could just present me with a list of recent links and let me choose one.

There are a lot of possible refinements ... perhaps restricting the list (or sorting it) to prefer links that I've used in the current category, or something like that.

I learned about blosxom from James, and it sounded like just the thing for a personal blog. I've played with Movable Type, but had nearly the same problem James did -- if I'm going to blog easily, I need to be able to do it without net access. Then I learned about Blapp, and that was it. So here's my blog. Maybe it'll be interesting someday.