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Do a search for "notes hang" in the 8.0 and 8.5 forums to see if any of the suggested solutions work for you. In my case I found that deleting the workspace folder tended to fix all the startup hangs that I experienced with Notes 8.0 upwards.
Feedback response number WEBB8WHTHE created by ~Tip Opjipymanli on 07/24/2012