How Does It Work?

You add a new entry for each to-do or task or appointment (they're all the same from program's point of view), Elephant Task stores this information on your computer in a local database. When you create a new entry, you specify the due date, time, and name for the entry.

The program "sits" in the background and checks for due tasks every few seconds. If there's no task due, it simply goes back to waiting mode. If there's a task due (or multiple tasks due at the same time), an Alert dialog will appear on screen. You can either dismiss it or view the details of the task, or tell it to reappear later.

The program needs to be installed so that it will "sit in the background" everytime you start Windows. See next topic How to install it for more details.