It's worth looking at AirStory - http://www.airstory.co I like their web clipper more than Evernote's.
Not sure I'd put professional data into a site that requires you to request an a beta invite.
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#22Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/
If our homepage isn't clear enough, check out https://www.copycopy.com/product (excuse the unfinished wording on that page as it's not live yet).
You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.
Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.
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#24Evernote has always supported offline /local notebooks without the cloud. You lose some features such as OCR, but the search feature works otherwise. Is there some reason that won't work?
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#25I'd go plain text with org-mode, if you are willing to learn a bit of Emacs.
Plain text has the advantage of being completely open to scripting. So it can satisfy any requirements you have down the road. Also easy to version control, etc.
Org-mode supports an immense amount of things already, including tags and it derives from an outline mode so it's great for note taking.
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#26To be honest, I use plain old email. If you have a decent client (I use Thunderbird) you can put any text, links, images etc in there. Searching is built-in. Tagging isn't quite as good but there are ways around it.
I then use procmail for putting into the right folder.
It has worked really well for me.
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#27You may need to explain more about your work flow and data types. Like if you were preparing a paper (you presumably aren't) Zotero is a super cool set of tools for citation and bibliography management. If you are doing data science, Ipython for python and RCloud for R. Command line geek? Both vim and Emacs have relevant tools. A lot of code and large data files? A git repo and git annex may be what you are looking f…
There's a lot of PDF files, clippings from websites or applications, reports from databases, as well as plain text. A big part of my workflow is annotation of the source data and tagging it with various categories. Honestly, my perfect tool would probably be OneNote's engine with evernote's tagging bolted on.
I haven't used it myself, but Yojimbo from the makers of BBEdit is worth a look based on your criteria.
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#28Try Microsoft One Note. You may find the following useful:
- track history of edits made to a page
- easy to insert images, videos etc.
- search works decent
- do complex sums etc inline without loading calculator or Excel
- Quite handy to write math equations.
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#29I have been using NationalVelocity on Desktop + Simplenote on iPhone and I couldn't be happier about it.
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#30I am incredibly happy with Google Keep. Set it up like a Chrome desktop application and you can tap into all the awesomeness of Drive also. It's very simple, syncs with your phone app, etc.