Tasks are intended to help you remember things you have to do in relation to information elements. They are most powerful when they are associated with an information element A file, web page, note, task, discussion post or other individual source of information. . Tasks can have a start and finish date. Reminders can be set that appear in a popup A secondary browser window that appears automatically when a web page is loaded. window on your screen. Tasks can be created and edited in KnowledgeWorkshop of created in or linked to Outlook.