(I know I said I'd be offline for a while but I wanted to point out a few things that might be of use to you.)
Noting works well in day to day life, but when I am doing sitting practice and the body turns into a mass of tingling sensations, going back noting the breath seems like a step back in terms of awareness of the present moment.
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Nothing could be further from the truth! Think about it. If you're staying with the sensations which make up breath then you will always be returning to the present moment since the breath is happening right now. If you're noting and find you've gone off on some mental tangent, or gotten caught up in thought loops then the breath is like an anchor in the present moment.
If you're doing anapanasati as the basis for concentration practice then you are taking the breath as an object, you endeavour to experience the entire in/out cycle as one flowing movement and you don't focus on the individual sensations which make it up. However, if you're doing insight practice then the focus is on experiencing each individual sensation of the breath, to the best of your abilities, and understanding experientially that even this can be seen to arise and pass away.
Do not underestimate the breath, seriously, it may seem odd (at first) to consider the fact that something as simple as breathing could provide deep insights into the nature of things as they are, but it's true and continued practice will show you why I've made a point of mentioning this. There is more to be learned from a single breath than you'd find in fifty books on meditation.
Also, you might find that the super-fact monosyllabic noting you experienced while going through the A&P slows down as you move into the dukkha ñanas. Rather than going for speed, aim for accurate observation of whatever arises in awareness and really stick with it as it will help you negotiate Dark Night more skillfully and break through to the next stage of insight. Your description in that first sentence sounds like A&P moving into Dissolution so you're obviously doing something right otherwise you wouldn't be making progress. Stick with it!
It seems easier to just be aware without noting after a certain point
As long as you're mindful of the sensations and observing the 3C's then you're practicing vipassana. This is all about seeing things clearly, getting a look at what's going on under the hood of the car and understanding the mechanics of it at a fundamental level. Verbal noting is just another tool to use, non-verbal noting is just another tool to use, choiceless awareness is just another tool to use...you see where I'm going with this?
Only did about 25 minutes of meditation. But was able to get into that bliss like state that I got so excited about 2 days ago. Basically did a lot of noting to build up 'energy' and see the vibrations. Then started doing concentration meditation. But instead of jhana ended up in a non-solid bliss state where I could still observe impermanence. Got a little excited should have been more mindful of the 3 Cs.
That makes sense, you've crossed the A&P so this sounds like a natural progression from that stage. Due to the fact that you've been noting, you may find it slightly more difficult to get into samatha jhanas due to the fact that insight practice requires you to incline your mind towards seeing the 3C's. You might find that using a kasina object, maybe a candle, a bowl or a coloured shape of some sort, or counting the breaths will help with this. Chances are, due to you having crossed the A&P, you're finding yourself in 2nd jhana fairly quickly when sitting which may explain the energetic stuff and blissfulness.
If you find yourself excited or anticipating something then try to be aware of when that feeling begins and when it ends, everything in your immediate sensate experience is fodder for insight practice so don't be disheartened if you get carried away at first. These things can become considerably less impressive once you've seen them a few hundred times.....

Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness of painful things is self evident. But unsatisfactoriness of pleasure is also evident in the form of craving. Craving means there can never be satisfaction. Also from a bit of research I did looks like one of the suttas also talks about a type of Dukkha to do with the fact the formations aren't 'real' (which I had noticed already, but good to see in writing).
Bingo. Impermanence means that nothing lasts, if nothing lasts then nothing can satisfy, if nothing can satisfy then wasting your life looking for satisfaction anywhere else but in this immediate sensate experience will lead to suffering. I won't go into the stuff about formations right now as I don't want to confuse the issue, but basically the easiest way to look at it is that unenlightened existence is dukkha....until you see how to end it.
Anatta - During meditation today I played the game of observing the observer, which is cool. I normally precieve the observer as being located somewhere at the back of my head. When I try to observe, it is by definition no longer there, then try to observe it in its new location. This is a hard game to play. Starting to get the concept of Anatta, perhaps the observer is just an impermanent sensation that observes other impermanent sensations. The sense of self is a formation.
Again, I won't go into the stuff about formations too much as it's open to a lot of misunderstanding until you experience them for yourself. Basically, formations are a gestalt of each flickering moment of experience, I like to think of them as being like sets for a play on a stage, and experiencing them reveals something very important about the nature of reality.
The lines I've emboldened here contain some good insights; in the case of trying to observe the new location of the observer, maybe try looking at what is still observing the pattern of sensations which imply an observer. Remember that one sensation cannot observe another, so if there's the sensation of 'someone' observing this experience as it unfolds then how can those sensations be that which is observing? It seems paradoxical but this is resolved upon stream-entry.
Something else to remember is that this is not an intellectual understanding. This is experiential.
Don't get caught up in the terminology right now, it will become much clearer as you go along so just stick to the practice itself and deal with the speculative stuff once your arse is off the cushion, not before.