Notes has a curious feature that is sometimes used by developers and advanced users.
If you compose a Memo or any sort of form that has a text field, you can test it.
In a memo form put @now in the subject then press Shift and F9 keys.
The @now will be replaced by the time and date.
Try @name([abbreviate];@username) then press Shift F9, this will put your full notes name
in to the field, and convert it to abbreviated form.
Try:
@platform
@name([CN];@username)
@name([abbreviate];@picklist([Name]))
If you think of any more please let me know.