iCal and email let-down

Hmm, everything on the Mac/ipod seemed to fit so perfectly together until I got to iCal and email.  They're almost integrated, but doesn't quite make it.  Look at how "to do" lists work.  You create a to-do as a mailbox entry.  It doesn't show up in your calendar even if you put a due date.  Sure, you can ask it to publish to iCal (kinda) but it shows up tacked onto the side and not on any particular day, and that's just on the Mac.  On the iPod Touch version of iCal it's nowhere to be seen.  I just don't get it.

The basic functions of either calendar or email seem to work fine but they've left me wondering where the magic that seems to be everywhere else in the experience is.  Am I expecting too much?

How did I do that?

I know I'll forget most of the little things I did when first moving to the Mac so this post is for me to jot down things I figure out so I won't have to figure them out again.

• Keyboard/Nav stuff:
  
  • Home/End/PgUp/PgDn - use command-left/right/up/down keys to do that
  • Multi-touch drag-n-drop - click and hold with thumb then use another finger to drag around
  • Two-finger scrolling on multi-touch pad is great
  • Three-finger swipe to go forward/back
  • Four-finger swipe (up/down) to organize multiple windows
• Network stuff:
  
  • ipconfig getifaddr en0 - gives the ip address of the wired connection
  • ipconfig getifaddr en1 - gives the ip address of the wireless connection
  • Use Applications/Utils/Network Utility for a GUI network viewer
  • Mount network drives using Finder with command-K
  • For a windows drive use smb://
• iTunes:
• Mobile Me: