github + jupyter notebooks is what I use for my research notes... can put links and pictures and shit in it.
I don't think that does what I need, but it's amazing. I'll spend an afternoon with it someday!
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#42http://www.onemodel.org
It's the best info organizer (for my style at least) that I know of, though (so far) less feature-rich than many products. I hope the About page at that link explains the present and future well.
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#43You 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.
Zotero Standalone may work then. There is also https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork which has tag and search support.
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#44Orgmode is really good for this kind of stuff.
orgmode is suitable for reproducible search. There is a thesis written on it. http://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v046i03
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#45Try out Workflowy. Browser based, iPhone app.
Crazy fast and super structured.
I'm in the midst of shifting from Evernote and doubt that I'll ever look back.
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#46I made Trunk as an Evernote alternative. It's open-source and web-based, using Markdown to store notes. It might be too simple for your needs however.
You can try it at http://trytrunk.com/ or get the source at https://github.com/timdavies/trunk
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#47try dscout.com - refreshing take on user research.
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#48If you don't like your research to be in the cloud, take a look on the open source desktop app of http://tagspaces.org
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If going this route I'd also recommend checking out my brother's reference management tool Paperpile http://paperpile.com [0] It's kind of like Gmail for your papers—keyboard shortcuts, fancy Google Docs integrations, auto-downloading etc. He spent a couple of years after finishing his PhD to make his dream reference management tool with a couple of friends. [0]: I also voiceovered the video on the homepage. A Reddit…
It wasn't super clear from the page, but can I easily annotate PDF's from my iPad and use the summary of the annotations on my PC?
Sorry I missed this yesterday! They have a pretty amazing PDF annotator https://paperpile.com/features/pdf-annotator but not sure how it looks on an iPad.
Here they suggest that using iAnnotate synced with Google Drive files works like a charm: http://forum.paperpile.com/t/tip-sync-with-goodreader-on-ipa...
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#50It would depend on the requirements. There are several Open Source programs, some will index locally, some won't. There are also evernote tools for command line such as GeekNote.
Oddly, if its public. I have had clients use a wiki; or even Wordpress. (has mobile sharing app)...