Reference manager with note-taking/quote-storing capabilities I'm looking for a reference manager with note-taking/quote-storing capabilities. I don't need a full knowledge management suite, but I want to find a program where I can store and search long notes/lots of quotes, attached to entries in my bibliography.

So far I've used:


Bib(La)TeX + pen and paper
Zotero
Mendeley
Paperpile
(Not sure about Endnote, but at least I haven't seen it used for what I need.)


Pen and paper obviously isn't searchable, and funnily enough, neither are the notes in Zotero. All of these programs treat notes as negligible, focusing on PDF metadata import and annotations, PubMed or Google Scholar search and whatnot. Which is all fine but not what I'm looking for. Since I work in the Arts &amp; Humanities I still have my fair share of books accompanying the PDF articles in my work routine. For those I don't need any online specialties but rather a way to attach lots of quotes, notes, summaries and so on.

From what I've heard, Citavi can do some things like that, but I'm nowhere near a Windows computer to try it out. Ideally I'm looking for Linux programs, I could try Mac, and give bonus points for a web interface.
I use BibTeX / BibLaTeX with Jabref.
I make use of the Annotation Field.
See this TeX.SE answer for some details on how to enable the annotation tab on all entry types.

In JabRef, the search bar allows you to search all fields, so that gives you searching. I particularly like getting search results from my annotations and from the abstracts.
And you can store by each of the fields -- including the timestamp of when you added it.
It also lets you easily link to the PDF and/or URL/DOI. I suggest if you can link to the URL/DOI in preference, since that will work on any computer if you transfer the entry.

To add things to Jabref is just a matter of pasting the BibTeX entry code -- or it has a number of other options.

Jabref just fronts the BibTex file, which is really nice if you need Bibtex to use latex referencing -- but I guess for most fields of humanities this is not so significant.

BibTeX is also really nice because it is just plaintext field, so you can version control it cleanly.
See this Tex.SE question
Even if in humanities, version controlling your referencing is a great idea, since it makes it centrally available (if you use hosting), and gives you backup, and merging.