A demonstration of default output, for an actual note about this template:
Note: The "A" in the name of this template doesn't stand for anything, it's the English article "a". {{Note}} already existed as part of the old way of doing citations.
Pass an argument for a custom start; the trailing colon is automatically added. {{A note|Custom note}} produces:
Any of the following inline, comment-level templates can be converted into {{Resolved}}-style hatnotes by using {{Resbox}} to put a box around the icon and text.
{{enUici|Wikipedia:List of discussion templates|List of discussion templates]], a more linear table of essentially the same set of templates
Template:Resolved/See also, the smaller family of thread-level hatnote templates, similar to the above but with a box around them; any template above can be converted to one of those with {{Resbox}}