Touching anywhere in the note puts it into edit mode, so why even have the green pencil edit button? I'm constantly editing notes on accident, especially when cooking, so it feels like that icon is just there to mock me.
Most of my notes I like to sorted by 'date modified', and their order is important to me, but thanks to there being no way to edit the dates on notes, combined with the frequency of unwitting screen touches, my note organization is becoming a mess.