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I'd like to be able to press a shortcut key and have my computer save a screenshot of whatever I'm looking at, along with letting me type a brief note for context. Ideally it would also record the URL of whatever the browser was visiting (if it's a screenshot of a browser page), or the file path of whatever was open.

So basically Pinboard, but for pages of PDFs and other random scraps.

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Do you know about Firefox Screenshots?

https://screenshots.firefox.com/

Just for the browser (but that could include PDFs and other things), I think they aim for a workflow very similar to the one you envision.

Evernote does something like this. And it let's you search for text in the images as well. I have over 12k notes in Evernote. Many screenshots. It has excellent OCR capabilities, full-text search (via Lucene?) and syncs across devices.

Yep search, search across attachments and web page capture means that Evernote rules in this space for me.

Evernote has traditionally been marketed as a note-taking app but for me it is a personal database/encyclopaedia. The ease of finding anything without having to worry about structure or links (though I have a bit of both) is fantastic.

What platform do you run EN on? I have 9.3k notes and find it _horrifically_ slow to run searches on macOS (Quad core i7 Mini 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD).

It's so bad that I am actively looking for alternatives, even though I'm dreading getting my highly-formatted data out in a usable form.

Mainly macOS. Well, to begin with: I don't perceive it as "terribly slow". Yes, it has hiccups at times, but we are talking about several thousand notes. And in that range I haven't seen a real altrrnative. For instance I imported my 12k notes in BearApp. The app won't open anymore after the import.

I am in the exact same position. Especially so after several senior execs left the Evernote company. I even work on a custom notes store (Django and mysql backed) to keep kopies of all my notes because I really see no real alternative with the search capabilities of Evernote. And no, OneNote is not the same (search wise)

iOS has support for screenshots and annotations, but the resulting images are not searchable.

Devonthink on macOS/iOS will save text snippets and text annotations, into a searchable database.

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