I am primarily a Party/Empire person myself as well. What I generally do is fire up PT and GT+ and open up the top 4 games in regard to average pots and get on the waiting lists. That is my table selection

If the game fills up with rocks I move on but most of the time this is just not the case at Empire. I don't take notes on anyone anymore, what I do if someone is shitty is I open up the note pad and just hit a couple of keys so that the notepad shows up on them, that way I know they are shitty. GT+ has also been a big advantage in this as well. I play alot of the 36 games there as well so I know the handful of decent players that are in the games and we pretty much stay out of each others way. I think keeping a buddy lists is almost useless as the bad players just show up a time or two and are never seen again. I did that for a while and I had just piles of empty smily faces because they were gone for good after that first time I played them. I believe NL is a different story in regard to keeping notes as tendencies there are much more important when it comes to the good players.
In the B&M scene table selection is one of the MOST important aspects of your game as well as SEAT selection because you are generally going to be at the same table for several hours at a time if you are like me with the same people as they just don't move in and out like they do online. So the bottom line is I wouldn't worry about your flaw online as there is not much you can do about it in my opinion at the lower limits at least. Good luck.