After fiddling with some recent releases of Joplin, I noticed that they have a custom sort option. To the best of my knowledge, Joplin does not store data in typical markdown files, but it feels kind of similar to Obsidian in a couple ways (both, unfortunately, lack subpages). But I assume that there is either an app-wide cache with the custom order, or the order is embedded into the note data itself. Might be worth looking into.
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