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A cross-platform note taking app, with the ability to jot down an idea and later associate resources with it (links, media, other notes, etc.).

Idea + resources = Project (like an article or a book), and tags can help allocate the same resource to multiple projects.

It should allow the note taking to be very quick and fast, like writing a message.

And yeah, I've been trying a bunch of apps over the years. Evernote, the closest one, doesn't fit yet.

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Have you tried EMACS orgmode (https://orgmode.org)? With all the goodies, such as org-capture, linking features and so on you can get great solution basically for free in terms of money. On the other hand it is quite time consuming investment, but hey, note taking system is for life if it's good, right?

Although the interface is text-based (I believe it's a pro not con) it is therefore quite clunky in terms of media integration (photos are good, but I don't know about the videos) the rest (links, associating other resources, tagging system, todos system, exporting, projects etc) is quite superior to everything I've ever seen. Also it's FOSS and therefore extremely expendable IF you are willing to learn a bit of elisp (although I don't know it and I'm fine using just pieces of code from the internet and Spacemacs).

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