The phrase "a sort of note" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or is similar to a note, often in a vague or informal context.
Example: "She left me a sort of note on the kitchen counter, but it was hard to read."
Alternatives: "a kind of note" or "a type of note".
Also on a sort-of positive note: The climactic reveal is subtly lit.
I've never been one for making a list of resolutions, but one over-arching manifesto – a sort of permanent note to self – makes a lot of sense to me, especially after some of my questionable love-life decisions last year.
Police found a handwritten letter in his apartment, "a sort of suicide note", which showed he had planned the attack, and in which he said he expected it would be his final act.
As a sort of secondary note to this, Captain Marvel also brings together lots of pieces from other previous films.
Pinterest's Lens, for example, helps collapse the distance between the discovery process on Pinterest and the real world, making it easier to get users to make a sort of mental note to look into a product later.
You end the book on a sort of hopeful note, but are you optimistic that there is change taking place?
I put so much hype and hope into them and ended up feeling disappointed, so the first day of the new year started on a sort of melancholy note.
Because if you stay faithful to the book's every detail and approach it with too much reverence, you end up with a dry recapitulation, a sort of Cliff Notes for the novel.
And so everything goes into a sort of chronological notes database, because with something of this scale, one thing you need to be sure of is that you're not rereading some newspaper article for the second time and failing to remember that you already entered it in your notes four years ago.
