Is there a better calendar app?

[ragreenburg]

The best Linux calendar I've found is the Emacs Diary. It uses a superset of the classic "calendar" syntax and integrates with appointments for notifications. Since it's a human written file it's easy to keep in git with all your other stuff.

Can that give notifications though? I tried using Org Mode to make a bunch of to-do's and put them on deadlines but I couldn't get notifications to work in the background. Basically to me a calendar just needs to be able to say "Hey, it is 8:00am, don't forget to do blank".

I've never had it generate desktop notifications as I use an overlapping window manager on my phone so I can usually see the emacs window. This SE post shows someone calling notify-send from a hook though: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/question...eea37d80fe

I want to keep Emacs closed when I can because I want to preserve RAM and try and keep the battery lasting as long as I can. I have unfortunately tried notify-send a few times and have found it to be much more work than it seems. I've followed a few tutorials on it and every times they're like "Now you should be receiving notifications" but mine never work.