[JorBru]

Part of what I feel is missing could be satisfied by a minor change to OF and a minor change to iCal (beyond our reach, I know).

1) OF could have a "Do Date" field in each Action Item (just one additional field!) and the export from OF for iPhone could send that date (rather than Due date) with the Action Item to iCal (and send it as a To Do item), and
2) iCal on iPhone and iPad could show To Do items (which, Apple has not done for some reason).

That would get me a long way toward my "Hot List & Appt" screen (add a couple tools for quickly re-assigning "Do" date, and I would be pretty happy - even though I still think there is lots of opportunity here.)