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

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.