To Do's and Notes in Mail - why?

Can someone explain me how does creating To Do's and Notes in Mail.app make sense, and possibly what might be the Apple's future route on implementation of To Do's and Notes?
I am currently using To Do's in iCal and Notes in iPhone. Unfortunately neither can be synchronized. This seems weird to me and and the addition of To Do's and Notes to Mail.app makes me worried that it will go even worse. But maybe I just don't understand how this is meant to be used, and so explanation would help me.
Right now, I simply don't understand what To Do's and Notes have to do in Mail. Mail is a communication tool, so I think that everything in Mail should have a sender and a recipient. Notes are something I write for myself, so I cannot find any thinking path from Note to Mail.
Even stronger is my misunderstanding of To Do's in Mail. If you go to any time management training, one of the first thing you learn is that there is not sense for To Do without a due date. The rule is simple - To Do without due date will never be done. And for a task with a due date, I can hardly think of any less logical place to deal with than a calendar, where I can simply reserve a time to work on that task.
So if Apple is going to simply add Notes and To Do's synchronization to iPhone, I will be more than happy. But if the rumors are correct about Apple not going to do that, I will greatly appreciate someone explain this "new way of thinking" to me, so that I can re-train myself to use these tools the way that will be compatible with iPhone...

when you select and open an email, you need to select text within the email to be able to create a to do.
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I just waded through 13 pages of an old thread that was locked where Terence kept saying iphoto was all one needed to work with one's photos and kept getting called on the fact he would not answer the question "where are my photos" (photos = files) because it was so darn dangerous for anyone to touch the actual files in the iphoto library.
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