How to enable notifications on Calendar macOS for recurrent events?

Solution 1:

Make sure event notifications are enabled for whichever calendar you're adding the events to.

Solution 2:

The MACOS Calendar.app's workflow is a bit counterintuitive.

You would think that it would add at least a default type of notification (called "alert" in MACOS calendar.app ) for each event... it does not however. You have to pick and choose yourself.

Here is a quick example:

• I had added one default alert, and
• I am showing adding a Custom alert in progress:

The Custom alerts dropdown contains 4 options:

• Message
• Message with Sound
• Email
• Open File

These let you do more than just a popup with a beep.

So, to recap the whole process:

1. Open Callendar.app
2. Create Event (for example click the + in the Title bar to Create Quick Event)
3. In the right hand side customization bar, Click Add Alert below the Date of event.
4. Create the first alert by clicking at None next to alert: label and picking time or Custom
5. Add more alerts by clicking the + sign right of the last defined alert