Having sync problems with iOS for Notes, Contacts, Calendar?

[walkitout]

I have. I have a Mac laptop, an iPhone, an iPad 2 with retina display (and then all the crap my family has on my appleid because family sharing was invented after we set things up). I update notes, my contacts, my calendar from all three devices. Often. And I hit the same kind of sync problem that drove me bananas with EverNote and caused me to give up on them entirely.

But I've been more successful at debugging _where_ the problem arose in the AppleVerse (was it some device's failure to get it up into the cloud, or another device's failures to get it down from the cloud), which tells me clearly which one needs to be synced. Also, Apple defaults to duplication over deletion in most cases, thus sparing me some heartache.

Anyway. Here are the ways I have found recently to force sync.

Contacts: on the All Contacts view, touch "Groups" in the upper left corner. Swipe _down_ from the top. Wait. That should force a sync.

Calendar: Go to "Calendars" (where it lists everything you have hooked into your Calendar). Swipe _down_ from the top. Wait. That should force a sync.

Not sure how to do it in Notes yet. But I have a theory, based on these other two things . . .