I had a similar problem, which was my fault, but I managed to recover notes using the smartsearch database. Look here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...29&postcount=7

on a sidenote, I guess probably the notes db didn't get saved when I did a full copy of /home/user to my pc because of security reasons, which smartsearch effectively nullifies, by storing sms, notes, contacts etc. in an unencrypted sqlite db right in the filesystem

I am for one, happy for that.