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The closest to this I found is Org Mode in Emacs. Pros and cons:

  + it's free
  + it's a flat, text format, human-readable and editable even outside Org Mode
  + has one of the best table editors ever
  + off-line first, no cloud bullshit
  + can handle source code and images pretty well
  + awesome export options - including LaTeX, HTML and nicely formatted UTF-8 plaintext
  + infinite flexibility of Emacs

  - infinite flexibility of Emacs
  - not Markdown (for those who care)
  - you have to do sync yourself (I do with Dropbox)
  - limited support for mobile (Orgzly is OK and works w/ Dropbox sync, but very limited
    functionality compared to what Org Mode in Emacs provides)

Read that one before. I'm getting more and more used to the simple Emacs shortcuts on the Mac (because it's build in to some degree). But I don't know if I have enough time to learn it... used to Sublime and VSCode coding here ;)

Emacs + EVIL mode. Life changer for me. If you are not familiar with vi-keybindings, I highly suggest everyone to take the time and learn them. It's not as hard as it seems and will increase your productivity while editing text 100-fold.

Does Org-mode handle images? If not, that's an issue for a lot of creative work.

Yes, org-mode can handle images.

And Android & iOS? How's the web clipper?

Good enough for documents. Not good enough for "creative work". Emacs can display images (but not really edit them - or at least I'm not aware of an appropriate elisp package ;)), and you can make Org Mode display the images you link to in-line. Including ones you generate from code snippets in your .org file, which makes the whole thing pretty useful for scientific computing :).

Ah, interesting - I might have to give it a try some time. Thanks!

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