Google stopped offering Notebook to new users after Jan 2009. CompanionLink (I’m using the Pro version), via the Internet, syncs and also has an erase all Google calendar and contacts and exports from Outlook into Google from Outlook:
Outlook – Google:
Calendar – Calendar
Tasks – Calendar
Contacts – Contacts
Notes – Contacts This puts Notes as a Google Contact, with the note in the Contact’s Note area. The contact then shows title of the note as the title of the contact in google. If you can categorize on your phone, you can have a category for Contacts and a Category for Notes, to keep ‘em separated.

After syncing Outlook with Google on the Internet, Google then syncs wirelessly to the phone into Calendar and Contacts with Outlook content as noted above. The Google Calendar identifies the Task as a Task and has details and options.

The erase all in Google option for the first “sync” prevents multiple entries because CL will add to the Google databases, not overwrite or merge with existing Google data.

CL (pro at least) can be set to sync Outlook manually at automatically including at a time or during a time period.

Before putting data from Outlook into Google with CL the first time, look at your Personal Folders, for duplicates. depending on previous software you have used, you can have archived and alternate databases for calendar, contacts (like deleted contacts in archive file). There is a short, not too detailed CL setup video that is decent enough but does not clarify the possibility during set up the importance in the Outlook configuration tab, of using the drop down menu for each Outlook item (contacts, Calendar, etc.). This is important to do because you might see Google Calender is mapped to sync with Outlook Calendar, for example. But if you look at the other options to map to in Outlook, you might see two or more databases all called “Calendar.” The first time I went with the default one selected, of 4 all with the same name, and got a 3 year old archived deleted calendar items file. Once I did some investigation of what each one was, it was easy to select the current file for each Outlook item (contacts, tasks, calendar, notes).

I guess this is a good bridge for those who are not comfortable with cloud computing, but from my experience; it is safer than having data stored on my PC.