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What I want is a Linux GUI tool, that on a hot-key pop-up and allows me to quickly add comments/task/edit using only keyboard, and then when I hot-key it again, it hides in the background. Any recommendations?

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I expect Linux terminals can do this: iTerm on mac has a "Hotkey Window" mode, which drops down a terminal when I press Option-Space. In (one of the panes of) this I keep a text-mode emacs open for time logging. I generally use it only for that, so it's always open at the right place. org-capture can also work well to quickly save notes.

For more substantial notes work I typically switch to the appropriate virtual screen, switch to the GUI-mode emacs there, and if needed use a hotkey to jump to the appropriate org file.

Can't recommend a task tracker that does that but how about using your favorite one and hot keying that one?

The most usable one (and the one I use would be a tiling WM).

Another would be dependent on the desktop environment you use. KDE has KHotkeys. Gnome certainly something similar.

Another more independent solution would be ror scripts (run-or-raise). They start or run a custom command with a key stroke.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1336/run-or-raise/ https://github.com/mkropat/jumpapp

This sound like a use for Rofi[0] and some kind of Todo.txt code that appends to a file

[0]: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

My favorite todo.txt editor is "open" or "xdg-open" on linux. `xdg-open ~/Desktop/todo.txt` and see if that works for you. There's probably a great way to bind it to the window manager keybindings. See: https://askubuntu.com/a/180317

VSCode with vi mode ?

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