But I can’t add links to source and citation objects in the transcription note, since notes don’t support citations associated with them. Or do you suggest adding a citation and linking the note as citation note? Kind of like a “backwards citation”? That would be kind of illogical to me as it would invert source & conclusion

What I do is as follow:

1. I create the Source (your article in this situation) as a media object (any kind of format you like)
2. Then I create a source in Gramps and add the media
3. Then I add a Note in to the source, in this note I copy all the text from the article
4. I give this Note a type of “Trancription Note” (or maybe “original text” or “article text”, what you like)
5. For some Notes I Create internal Gramps links to other objects in Gramps, i.e. to a family, person, place, or anything mentioned in the text that I have a Gramps object for.
6. then I add a Citation (Source reference) to that source, with page or paragraph reference. this will have a standard format like “My Doc”, JGH, Page 6, Paragraph 3,OoI: “Peder Jensen”: file://{full path to file}.
7. Then I will some times also add that paragraph as a Note for the Citation, and give it a type of “Citation Note” or similar
8. I add this and/or any other Citations I have created for that Source where I need it

You don’t need to add links to sources and citations in the Note text itself. The Note are only a transcription of the article.

A practical example:

You have a PDF with 8 pages that you wrote.

You add that PDF as a media file then You create a source with the name of the article i.e. “The 2019 Summary article of the Jensson Family.” then you create a Note where you copy all the text in that article, or maybe one Note for each page, (whatever suite you). In that note you can if you want add Gramps Internal Links to most Gramps Objects, but this is “not important”).

You know that on page 6 you have some information on Jens Jensson and on Page 8 you have some information about an Census Event where 8 people was mentioned

You create one Citation in Gramps for the page where “Jens Jensson” is mentioned and one Citation for the page where the Census are mentioned.

You give the first Citation the name: “The 2019 Summary article of the Jensson Family.”, David M., p. 6, OoI: “Jens Jensson”, {Full path to file}.

The second Citation will get the Citation string: “The 2019 Summary article of the Jensson Family.”, David M., p. 8, OoI: “Census of Stockholm 1885”, {Full path to file}. You also add a Note on this Citation with the text of the paragraph in the article, because you have added some notes there that is important. (OoI = Object of Interest)

In addition you should of course add sources and citations to the original sources where you found your information in the first place.

The source you add is the container of your text and information, regardless if its you or anybody else that wrote it, or if its a database.