Reliable alternative to iphone calendar / notes

simply put: I want a reliable notepad / text recorder on the iphone (at least while I don't give it up for a nexus).
since I don't really like relying on pay services such as "remember the milk" for many reasons I actually decided to give up notepad apps and use calendar. it was simple, it was right there, it could sync over the air and on sync, everything gets easily organized by dates as I like, and it's easy to search for them. only thing missing is tags. but it was great in every other aspect!
anyway, the worst thing then happened on my last trip to new zealand (by the way, pay attention to time zones if you ever want to change them... it can make a big mess on the events). internet ***** in there. 100 mb / month simply isn't enough and I had to turn airplane mode for several days. meanwhile I was happily updating my calendar offline, which is set to sync with google. 5 days later worth of notes, I open it up one day and everything is gone for good. I've read many cases in these forums of people losing it, but never on this offline situation. I also have no mobile me or intentions of paying $100 for it.
the main reason why I take notes like this is that I just can't remember them all that well, and I never thought this could happen like that from such a basic apple product and which should be dealt with the most important relevance.
I get over it, but I don't want to it to happen again. ever. I do my backups, I have a TM well set which already saved my *** from similar software bugs (actually iCal also made my events disappear before now that I think about it), but on this rare situation in which I was relying in iphone software alone to just work (5 days with no internet and no sync to my desktop / laptop), it didn't. I definitely don't trust it anymore and now I need a reliable alternative. *or maybe a reliable configuration.*
as far as my experience goes, iphone native apps can't be replaced by app store. plus there are way too many apps for me to just go and try each one.
so, anyone have a good experience to share in this sense?

Basic troubleshooting from the User's Guide is reset, restart, restore (first from backup then as new). Has any of this been tried?

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Hi, my name is Lucas, i'm an Apple Certified Technitian.
Last couple of weeks i've installed OSX Lion in a few Macs.
But one of them drove me crazy!
I have a Late 2007 White Macbook and i installed OSX Lion last week. I also have an iPhone 4 (Factory Unlocked) that i also updated to IOS 4.3.5 ... no problems syncing between them
Then i did the same with a 13'' Unibody MacBook Pro and an iPhone 4 (not unlocked)... no problems neither
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I left it for hours and nothing.
As i said i'm an ACT so i tried everything.
1- Remove Calendars from iPhone and syncing again
1- Repair Permittions
2- Reinstall iTunes
3- Reset iTunes and iCal Preferences and Caches
4- Backup iCal - erase ical content and generate a new iCal database
5- Reset Syncing Prefs and logs
6- Use DiskWarrior from an external OSX
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Nothing worked.
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THE SOLUTION
I Already solved this thing out. But i still don't understand the logic of all this... anyway, what y did is this:
1- turn off microsoft outlook sync with iCal (from outlook preferences)
2- Backed up iCals (Just in case)
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7- Check the "Test" calendar and sync the iPhone.
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Then i selected all the other calendars (Home - Work - etc) and i turned on the outlook sync
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