Moving notes from iphone to iMac and cleaning up cloud problems

First off let me say I've had a very hard time finding any documentation of cloud services. It's been very frustrating tying to figure out what's going on.
I decided I wanted all of my apple devices to be sync'ed for the main apps I use (notes, reminder, calander, and contacts). During the startup process for using cloud services a number of questions were asked and I'm sure due to my lack of understanding of cloud services I made mistakes. The end result is I ended up with many duplicate entries. Trying to clean up the duplicates caused more problems.
Here's where I am:
on iPhone:
good copy of notes
good copy of contacts
reminders look sync'ed with iPhone
calancer seems to look sync'ed with iMac
on iMac:
a few notes on cloud but many gone when I tried to clean up duplicate notes on iPhone
good copy of contacts on cloud (I deleted all entries "on my Mac")
reminder seems to look sync'ed with iPhone
calancer seems to look sync'ed with iPhone
Here's what I'd like to have:
on iPhone:
keep good copy of notes but have it on cloud
good copy of contacts from cloud (basically what iMac now has from cloud)
reminder on cloud and synced with iMac
calancer on cloud (may already be)
on iMac:
good copy of notes from iPhone that are on cloud (currently not so)
keep current icloud copy (still shows "on my Mac" although I deleted all entries)
reminder on cloud and synced with iPhone
calancer on cloud (may already be)
On both the iPhone and iMac I have cloud services on for all the main apps except mail. I don't know what cloud services will mean for mail as I'm not using the apple supplied email account(again no doc to tell me what happens).
What I don't want to happen is to lose my notes or contacts. I'd be very unhappy. My notes have been generated almost exclusively on my iPhone.
I still need to turn on cloud services for my iPad but will wait till I straighten out the above mess. I don't want to confuse things any more than they arleady are.
Can anyone please help my achieve what I layed out above. I would be most appreciative.

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