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I use Google Keep. It's simple and has an acceptable Android app and web interface. It also accomodates image notes. I don't think you'll find a notes application that has code highlighting, but perhaps I'm wrong...
Paper in big binder. I've tried for very long to find a good electronic solution. Up to and including writing my own wiki with various extensions customised to my diting style, and hunting around for every note taking app under the sun. The problem, I find, is that nothing beats the flexibility of being able to take out multiple sheets of paper and move them around, annotate them, put them back in. It creates a flexi…
Paper in big binder. I've tried for very long to find a good electronic solution. Up to and including writing my own wiki with various extensions customised to my diting style, and hunting around for every note taking app under the sun. The problem, I find, is that nothing beats the flexibility of being able to take out multiple sheets of paper and move them around, annotate them, put them back in. It creates a flexi…
I do all my thinking on paper, but I have a large blocker at the moment: indexing my notes. Have you found a good solution for this?
I just recently started using it, finding it rather nice, though it still feels rather 'beta'.
It has a convenient Markdown editor with live previews, sorting notes by notebooks, and has web and mobile versions. The notes are stored in dropbox and your browser's local storage, also they have imports and exports for backup.
Also its completely opensource and I can be sure that theres no snooping on my notes.
Mostly because it just creates a bunch of .txt files, which are easy to handle (sync, backup, read via ssh, ...), and by placing them in subdirs you get a hierarchy. It is mostly for text, but it supports links, links between notes, links to files, pictures, code, lists, checkboxes, latex, gnuplot, ... and if you really need something you can create your own tool.
Google Keep matches most of your requirements and it's what I use personally. It makes it really easy to tag, organize, share and with the archive feature you can get todo list functionality.
Google's nasty habit of dropping projects that are not core keeps me from trying and using a lot of their stuff.
In the worst case scenario you could export all of your notes to an easy to read format and start importing it to a new system.
Apart from that I haven't taken a note for the last 3 or 4 years. I had stacks of unsearchable notebooks with near-unintelligible scrawl in them, and rather than improving/indexing my note-taking I just gave up on it, reasoning that if I had gotten away with bad note-taking for 15 years then I could probably get away with none at all.
Turned out I was right. Without having notes as a crutch I end up concentrating harder on understanding and remembering on what people are saying. YMMV but it works well for me
I've been a fan of the concept of Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/#quiver ) for a long time, but unable to use it daily as it is Mac only. I love the idea of having different notebooks, being able to easily merge text, code, mathematics and images into one note, and make 'cookbooks' out of them. Someone make it for Windows please.
I might at some point, in which case I'll look up your comment, but the main reason I'm holding off is that it's quite a bit of work in a market that strikes me as rather oversaturated...
Then again sometimes the best reason to start a project is to scratch an itch, and always thinking in terms of 'useful' is a surefire way to suck all the fun out of life. Hmm...