How to tune Notes on OS X to use plain text or not to reformat quotes?

As technical guy, I do hate the markup support in Notes.app and I would prefer to be just a smart text one.

Here is my wishlist: * Use a different font, like a fixed width one * Drop any font/color/size on text paste * Prevent replacing quotes with smart-quotes (i like this while typing an email but not here where I copy/paste even code!)

I suspect that some of these could be obtained using some hidden preferences options. Anyway, if you know other 2rd party applications that could replace Notes, let me know. Still I do not want to lose the ability to access notes from iOS!