[hyyypr]

I'm using tiddlywiki [1] and I absolutely love it. You can host it where you want (owncloud works fine), and it has basically everything you just described.

I edit mainly using the web interface, but you can also edit the "tiddlers" (each note) using any text editor. The note has it's metadata at the beginning of the file.

I think I'm only using a very small % of TW's capabilities, but it feels like a very powerful tool.

1: http://tiddlywiki.com/

[an6n]

I used dokuwiki quite similarly for this in the past and it was okay - I just wrote using browser and embedded images with it, too. Maybe I could edit the "source" using vim and have the wiki-pages using a browser be the reader-mode for my notes. Thanks

[panglott]

Yea, I used to use Wiki on a Stick on a flash drive. When I had to migrate away, I ended up going to Evernote rather than Tiddlywiki. But it's a great tool.

[hyyypr]

Was and still am a big evernote fan. I just switched away from it towards tiddlywiki to be in full control of my data.