any advice on tools for researching? - info collection, distilling reports, managing knowledge

Dear Friends @WSO, I am curious about what everybody is using in daily work to deal with researching incl. collection info, distilling insight in reports and managing knowledge.

Large part of my work involves researching on industries and individual companies. I am using basic onenote/word/ppt/folders for such work. Organising my findings in notes, saving the reports/websites and searching based on what I have found has always been a pain.

Anybody has similar pains? Could you please share your experience and tools you use to manage this in consulting business?

Thank you so much!

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