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I used to use OneNote a lot (partly because my high school used it a lot). It was alright, but the free version on the Windows Store is horrible and I don't have enough use for it to pay for the full version.

I've tried using the notes app on my iPhone but it's just not quick enough to write things down in - although that might be because I have a 5s with a smaller screen than newer phones. I've used it when I have been without a pen a couple of times, but other than that I have very little use for it.

I think I used Evernote once and it just seemed like an early-2000s version of one note.

Ideally what I want is MediaWiki in a .exe or .app. Most other wiki programs seem to be inferior to OneNote for me, but I'd love to have my own offline Wikipedia of my life and projects.

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MediaWiki.{exe|app} exactly! That's what I'm trying to build, and this is the best description I've heard so far :)

Related question: would you prefer this to be local or on the cloud? I am oriented towards a cloud service because of cross-platform support and auto sync between devices, but open to suggestions.

Well, it'd be nice (well, actually, quite necessary) for it to be available offline.

I absolutely must have control over my own notes. The primary reason I'm using org-mode + dropbox is that I can replace that system with some other file-sync on my own if dropbox goes away.

Have you looked at TiddlyWiki? http://tiddlywiki.com/

It's a simple wiki-on-a-page, with collapsing and linking built in. You can also keep it completely off-line, or have it sync with your preferred solution (Dropbox in my case).

What platform are you on? I can think of several programs that fit at least some of this bill:

Emacs with Org Mode and deft

Zim

Circus Ponies notebook

Devon Think

Notational velocity with its wiki like linking

Tomboy notes

many more that I could list with time

Some of these will have various limitations such as not supporting images or not allowing easy drawings, etc, but many would come without the overhead of wiki markup.

I'm on Windows 10.

Images (as well as tables) are kinda a bit of a must for me. I don't find Wiki markup to have much overhead in practice.

Take a look at http://scribbleton.com/

Onenote (native) is free. I use it on windows 10. Are you sure you're downloading it from the right place? Try spoofing your windows version.

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