I hate Notes. I've always hated it. It got worse with 8, when they decided "Hey! Let's build it on top of Eclipse, so we can bloat it up and make it perform worse."

It crashes on startup 20% of the time, if you try to open your mailbox before the home page has fully loaded. It can't even manage the z-indexof the new mail alert in Windows.

Then, you get lovely meaningful crash errors like this, after your machine takes 2 minutes to full recover from it going down.