easy way to connect things?

I'm going to assume you're using the schematic design tool here. If you use an HDL language using the same signal name will automatically connect two signals. I haven't used the schematic tool in a long time but it used to work that if you draw a dangling net, or bus, off a component pin and give it the same name as another dangling net, or bus, the connection would be automatically made. Note that it won't, or didn't, draw a line between the two but did connect via naming attribute.