Why?

Features

WPF Native browser control (supports high DPI to soom just hit control + plus to zoom)
Windows keyboard shortcut support for adding tasks/bringing to front
Allows adding of additional javascript/css to the page (to have your code after full load add a js function called UserOnLoaded)
Outlook email links
Support for arbitrary link patterns in code
Extension support for custom handling, custom formatting, and custom protocol recognition (for example onenote: link support!). See SampleExtensions\Readme.md for details.

Install app (can run standalone in a folder as portable also, its just a rar archive as an exe), setup binary can be found at: https://github.com/mitchcapper/wpfdoist/releases
- You can install by using the setup exe under releases.
- Double click it, it will ask for a temporary folder to copy the install files to and will then run setup.
- Once it installs you can find it in your start menu under WPFDoist.
- Primarily designed for Windows 8 / IE10 or newer (but may work on older editions)
For first launch after install be sure to restart the app after starting it, as it must set compatibility settings for the browser
Just login to the browser frame for the first load (should not have to do every start)
Options are accessible by right clicking on the systray icon
Browser controls work as normal IE, you can use control +/- to zoom
Keyboard shortcut to bring to front/add task: (defaults to control+shift+t)
You can change the data directory from the c:\users\appdata.... to any folder you want by setting the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WPFDoist\DataDir (string) to whatever you like (ie r:\wpfdoist_shared)

Note while this works with outlook email links it only works with the official email ID. This ID changes when the email changes folders.
Primarily tested with outlook 2013/2016 and windows 8.1/10.
The apps IE compat mode will not be set right on first launch (so exit and re-launch the very first time to get the browser to behave right).
Rarely (maybe slow load?) the extensions are not properly loaded. I am not yet sure why this happens, but waiting seems to fix it (you can also right click on the systray and reload otherwise).
If you get the error when running setup of: "You cannot start application WPFDoist from this location because it is already installed from a different location." It is because the installer is at a different location from where you last installed from (yay one click installers) to fix just uninstall from add/remove programs before re-running the installer. You will not lose your settings or user data folder.