shell-velocity VS vim-floaterm

I really love the look of shell-velocity, it is almost exactly what I want. However, I again do not know how I would call it directly inside vim, nor does it have quite the same convenience of automatically syncing with a remote if I need to quickly use my notes across different machines.

You can try my shell velocity: a portable notational velocity for your shell.

I've created shell velocity, a note taking utility that helps reduce cognitive load by make the process of creating new notes and searching new ones the same action.

Using https://github.com/voldikss/vim-floaterm and remap the same shortcuts to (un)toggle the terminal would be interesting for you, also about compatibility, because if tomorrow you use nvim in the terminal you have the same key maps.

vim-floaterm has wrappers around some terminal filemanagers.

If you don't like distro's and want to use something of your own, make sure that you have a few plugins like telescope.nvim, lazy.nvim, toggleterm.nvim Or vim-floaterm, gitsigns.nvim, which-key.nvim, which will make your neovim journey smooth. Again these are just few, but I highly recommend it.

My personal favorite is ranger, a multi-panel console file manager that works nicely in a Neovim terminal. I also use floaterm to get floating terminal windows for ranger and lazygit, but that's optional. A Neovim tab with a terminal would work equally well.

For simple tasks like opening a dirty file in nvim I prefer vim-floaterm. It has a really nice integration with a bunch of TUI tools.

The two obvious candidates are vim-floaterm and toggleterm.nvim.

I’d suggest taking a look at vim-floaterm. While I don’t use this feature, it should have the ability to do what you’ve described

vimwiki + floatterm + vimwiki-sync