Another option — I use it all the time:
When perusing John's journal and you want to see any of the links, just right click on the link, then from the popup menu choose Open Link In New Tab (for Firefox) or Open in new tab (for IE).
Switch to the new tab to see that item, then when done, just close that tab.
When you get back to the journal tab, you'll be right where you were!
In fact I will often open nearly all of those links in separate tabs, so I can switch back and forth between them and the journal tab at will, finally closing all of the link tabs and returning to the journal.