I’m going to compare several commonly used tools like OneNote, Evernote vs Macropool Webresearch. In browser you can bookmark only URL address, but then you cannot save your current opinion and comments to page or to concrete part of page. You may open needed resource by URL page and it can be changed, deleted, re-designed – so you can spend more time to find what you need.

Pros of locally installed Webresearch:

1. Folders structure for saving documents. OneNote, Evernote just dump everything in one huge heap. To find something, you need provide to each note a tag, category, or you should search by keywords after indexing. High risk that your later search/filter will omit some saved/existing important parts of information. That’s why many users don’t rely only on indexed search and still create email folders to categorize own email data (although Microsoft doesn’t provide builtin tool to search by InFolder field, only external vbs scripts can help you in this)
2. Saving only necessary part of web page (not whole page as if you save page to hard disk)
3. Highlighting and editing, commenting directly on saved web pages
4. Adding tags, categories
5. no limitation in number created collections
6. ability to save in folder structure without conversion pdf, jpg, txt files

Cons of Webresearch:

1. limitation in 2gb of size for collection files (MSAccess mdb file limitation). To bypass this threshold you can create as many collections for each category of data as needed
2. not free, although you can make it work in trial mode … 🙂 forever
3. only windows version
4. Bugs, sometimes due to page formatting/style protection you will be forced to save only selection (not full page), or even only screenshot and so on.

Pros of OneNote, Evernote:

1. Cloud solutions. Easy to share DB between many devices
2. Saving part of web page, only necessary part.
3. Highlighting and editing, commenting of saved web pages
4. OCR

Cons of OneNote, Evernote

1. Free Basic Evernote limits: 60mb per month – not enough imho
2. No folders, only tags, only saved searches

ps

To share webresearch between work and home PC, you can place collections to Dropbox folder. Unlike onedrive, googledrive only Dropbox provides delta syncs (it means that large iso, DB, gigabyte collection files will not sync in whole if you changed only small part of these files – only delta changes will be synced). But be careful to not open these files simultaneously on two PC – you will have versioning issues.