Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?

I do alot of research for both product/market evaluation and general interest type stuff. Evernote's tagging features have served me well for a long time and make it easy for me to find stuff.

Their web-clipper is also an amazing tool that is super-useful, but not essential.

I'm getting involved in a project where the nature of some of the data I'll be handling is such that I can't host it with Evernote. So I need an alternative.

I use mostly Mac/iPhone. I don't like OneNote. Would prefer desktop software, but I'm fine with something with a server requirement. Open source is preferred.

You 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 for.

Orgmode is really good for this kind of stuff.

i second org-mode, criteria mentioned in request is available on org-mode. the only negative note to be mentioned is that it has steep learning curve

github + jupyter notebooks is what I use for my research notes... can put links and pictures and shit in it.