Well through playing on Stars alone I found under the notes in options how to set my "left click to assign label (colours)" and have "select 'notes' tab when assigning label"

This has made things easier already, but thought I would post for others as well.

Does anyone know where and if you can keep the steal focus under better control? There used to be an AHK for that too. Not just for notes, but when typing in say another window or browser not on Stars.