For me, the notes refreshing thing is intermittent. And I've had the problem only a minimum number of times.
After those first couple of days where I was having to refresh the screen, it completely behaved .... up until yesterday morning when I suddenly had to refresh it again for the first time in a while. That's on the iPad, btw, which is what I'm usually on in the morning.
So, yesterday morning was an anomaly, and it was back to normal this morning. There's no pattern to it that I can see.