Jack James,
Thank you for sharing your work flow.
I do have a question, though: Would it be possible to open Notes.app and focus on the newly created note? It seems picky, but it would greatly streamline the creation process for me. My conceptualization of the process would be to "simply" open the newest '.notesexternalrecord' file in the notes folder, but I have no idea where to start with this modification. Any help would be much appreciated.