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by crazy2be 3446 days ago
Zim[0] (open source) has a lot of these features. It saves your notes as plain markdown files, but has a WYSIWYG editor. You can link between notes. Add pictures, formatting, etc.

There is also a huge number of extensions, back when I was doing math stuff I used the LaTeX one pretty often. Another useful one is the calculator extension, which can evaluate simple expressions like 3 * 5 =.

Since it's just plain markdown files, you can save to Dropbox, git, NFS, or anything else really. There's even a built-in plugin to automatically commit to git periodically (useful for standalone notebooks, since you don't really want to be opening git manually).

I've yet to find anything better, although I do wish it had better support for "anonymous" notes. That is, notes that I don't really feel like organizing or naming.

[0] http://www.zim-wiki.org/index.html

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Zim is great. The only thing it is lacking is something like Evernote clipper.
Evernote clipper (or "save this page as a note") is the only thing keeping me on that platform.
Looks like a potential opportunity to use something like node-unfluff [0] to scrape page content. Pull request anyone?

[0]: https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff

Zim does have support for embedding images, or links to other files/websites.
Zim has support for embedded images, but not Web clipping.
OneNote has it too.
The OneNote clipper felt a little lacking and sometimes buggy for me. The Evernote clipper really shines in how smooth everything works.