first, a disclaimer: the opinion here is my own.

that said, i'm never a fan of microsoft one note anyway (i'm using office 2010 beta, going to run out end of this october. going to buy simple office version - which doesn't inlucde one note).

anyway, it's too bug and bulky - while easy to use. I'm actually a fan of WikiPad, which is open source, and behave the way I want it, but using it is too hard (my opinion). it's like Microsoft is making it easy for the user, while WikiPad is making is sound awesome, but getting things into it is hard (especially images, which is very important to me).

then there is evernote, which is almost like one note, except it's free - since i plan to use it locally anyway (which also another main reason).

but i'm looking for a super awesome local based wiki / note taking that is both open source, very easy to use, allow technical things to be done if you want to.

i went to basketer website, but right now it's Linux only, although they plan to move from KDE to Qt, so that it can be multi platform, but I can't wait.

Anyway, after trying several app, I settle down on lognoter. which is very easy to use, very awesome, free for one person use (commercial can have many user share same database), but not open source. embedded file linking, etc. in other words, if it have screen capture option like one note, and have note taking like evernote, lognoter is to onenote is just like a ferrari is to volkswagon.

still, i'm in the early process of generating my personal library / wiki and I want to know if any of you people have your favourite note taking, wiki, personal libray software. please give me the links.

thanks.

Tomboy might be something to look at. It comes installed by default on Ubuntu and is listed as working on Windows and Mac too.