The phrase "a mere note to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something is just a simple or insignificant message or reminder.
Example: "This is a mere note to remind you of our meeting tomorrow at 10 AM."
Alternatives: "just a note to" or "simply a reminder to".
In this way, what had initially appeared to be a mere note-to-note plagiarism of Beethoven has eventually given way to a radically different continuation, one which invokes Schubert's own, idiosyncratic compositional style.
The debt owed by Herodotus to Athenian tragedy, with its implacable trajectories from grandeur to abjection, has been much commented on by classicists, some of whom even attribute his evolution from a mere note-taker to a grand moralist of human affairs to the years spent in Athens, when he is said to have been a friend of Sophocles.
But now that downtown has become one of the most desirable areas in the region, deserving of a whole book rather than a mere note, all that looks terribly shortsighted.
While the work in the water bell area seems to be a mere foot note compared to that of Savart and Boussinesq, it is in the nondimensionalization of the equations that Taylor finds this length scale which crops up in all of the work with thin sheets making the contribution much more significant than earlier believed.
In poetry a metaphor may perform varied functions from the mere noting of a likeness to the evocation of a swarm of associations; it may exist as a minor beauty or it may be the central concept and controlling image of the poem.
The relative success of the "Friedenstag" recording demonstrates something else about Strauss: his operas respond particularly well to vivid, decisive performances, readings that lift the music from mere note-spinning to something more vivid.
This was all that they passed to the bank: Potter v. McDowell (43 Mo. 93); Watson v. Hawkins (60 id. 550); and it was a mere incident to the note, securing its payment to the holder thereof in good faith, although he was ignorant, at the time of taking it, of the existence of the lien.
He grabbed the set with a series of huge forehands, mere notes in a symphony of grunts and groundstrokes.
In fact, after finding that reasons were required in the circumstances, the Court in Baker concluded that the mere notes of an immigration officer were sufficient to fulfil the duty of fairness (para. 44).
His lower leg threatens to become detached at the knee while revolving during ronds de jambe en l'air when he dances at full speed, but he could also radiate imperious authority with a mere gesture (note how he extends his hand to Ms. Aldous in their wedding pas de deux).
And in fact, that "three-year itch" was a mere side note in its rich findings.
