Badge system and icon system in notecaddy only works if you use holdem manager. And to be honest i did not find notecaddy so usefull before that two systems. Because if you use many notetracks you will have 100 lines of garbage and will nto know what is good and what is bad.
Automatic taking notes is not so good tool. But automatic marking tendencies based on those notes (badge system) is very usefull. Imagen if you can just go over your note and see a badge that says that villain bluffs river many time by betting HP. This can make your play really fast.
Also i suggest to move to badges, icons and stuff like that and dump the whole idea of taking textual notes because they are useless. Ok maybe the current one that are default are OK. But anything else than that makes no sense...