diff --git a/plugins/fields/note/params/note.xml b/plugins/fields/note/params/note.xml
index 31832bedfefe4..012257e81da68 100644
--- a/plugins/fields/note/params/note.xml
+++ b/plugins/fields/note/params/note.xml
@@ -1,96 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <form>
-	<field
-		name="required"
-		type="hidden"
-		filter="unset"
-	/>
-
-	<field
-		name="default_value"
-		type="hidden"
-		filter="unset"
-	/>
 	<fields name="params" label="COM_FIELDS_FIELD_BASIC_LABEL">
-		<fieldset name="basic">
-			<field
-				name="hint"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="class"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="label_class"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="show_on"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="showon"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="showlabel"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="label_render_class"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="render_class"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="value_render_class"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="prefix"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="suffix"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="display_readonly"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-
-			<field
-				name="searchindex"
-				type="hidden"
-				filter="unset"
-			/>
-		</fieldset>
 		<fieldset name="renderoptions">
 			<field
 				name="display_frontend"
@@ -148,6 +58,7 @@
 				type="text"
 				label="PLG_FIELDS_NOTE_PARAMS_CLOSE_LABEL"
 				description="PLG_FIELDS_NOTE_PARAMS_CLOSE_DESC"
+				default="true"
 			/>
 		</fieldset>
 	</fields>
diff --git a/plugins/fields/note/src/Extension/Note.php b/plugins/fields/note/src/Extension/Note.php
index 3839999c6542e..c4d953d47221b 100644
--- a/plugins/fields/note/src/Extension/Note.php
+++ b/plugins/fields/note/src/Extension/Note.php
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
 
 namespace Joomla\Plugin\Fields\Note\Extension;
 
+use Joomla\CMS\Event\Model\PrepareFormEvent;
 use Joomla\Component\Fields\Administrator\Plugin\FieldsPlugin;
 use Joomla\Event\SubscriberInterface;
+use Joomla\Utilities\ArrayHelper;
 
 // phpcs:disable PSR1.Files.SideEffects
 \defined('_JEXEC') or die;
@@ -24,4 +26,46 @@
  */
 final class Note extends FieldsPlugin implements SubscriberInterface
 {
+    /**
+     * The form event. Load additional parameters when available into the field form.
+     * Only when the type of the form is of interest.
+     *
+     * @return  void
+     *
+     * @since   __DEPLOY_VERSION__
+     */
+    public function prepareForm(PrepareFormEvent $event)
+    {
+        parent::prepareForm($event);
+
+        $form = $event->getForm();
+        $data = $event->getData();
+
+        $type = ArrayHelper::getValue((array) $data, 'type');
+
+        if (!$this->getApplication()->isClient('administrator') || $form->getName() !== 'com_fields.field.com_content.article' || $type !== 'note') {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $form->removeField('default_value');
+        $form->removeField('required');
+        $form->removeField('hint', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('class', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('label_class', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('showlabel', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('label_render_class', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('render_class', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('value_render_class', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('show_on', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('prefix', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('suffix', 'params');
+        $form->removeField('display_readonly', 'params');
+
+        $xml = $form->getXml();
+
+        foreach ($xml->xpath('//fieldset[@name="smartsearchoptions"]') as $fieldset) {
+            $dom = dom_import_simplexml($fieldset);
+            $dom->parentNode->removeChild($dom);
+        }
+    }
 }