Manage your ideas, articles and posts, with CintaNotes
CintaNotes is a free portable note manager that can be used to manage your ideas, article excerpts, blog posts and quotes, research data, Wikipedia entries, etc.
Features: Capture text from almost any application; auto URL population for webpage captures; Quick capture hot key; Note retrieval by typing a word or phrase; exporting to Unicode Text and XML.
Note that the free version is limited to 3 sections, a single notebook, lack of password protections, file attachments, and embedded links to other notes.
Although the commercial version offers really useful options, if your needs are not that many you may like to get CintaNotes free and enjoy the free features.