{"id":11540,"date":"2026-04-03T16:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:04:02","slug":"buzzkill-notification-manager-make-android-google-calendar-alarms-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/buzzkill-notification-manager-make-android-google-calendar-alarms-louder\/","title":{"rendered":"BuzzKill Notification Manager: Make Android Google Calendar Alarms Louder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been struggling with this one for a while but I finally have a solid solution!<\/p>\n

I found an app that makes my Google Calendar alarms more prominent! The problem being that the standard Google Calendar Alarm on my android phone is a simple “Ding”. Changing that sound to be longer isn’t any good because then I’ve got a long-playing alarm that I can’t turn off! What I needed was a loud, dismissable alarm-style notification.<\/p>\n

The beautiful Buzzkill Notification Manager<\/a> app does it! It uses very few permissions, is as crazy-straightforward as it can be, and, most importantly, it works!<\/p>\n

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It keys off of Google Calendar Notifications. So you’ve got to make your notifications correct. Here’s an example:<\/p>\n

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Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

Before Buzzkill, I had\u00a0been using Calendar Alarm Clock Reminder<\/a> by zzappbros for several years. A while back, it started misbehaving, I could tell the app “ring n minutes before every event”. But I couldn’t tell it “ring when the Calendar notification rings” (like what I do just above). This mostly<\/em> worked for me, but not really.<\/p>\n

I recently tried the ZenLendar<\/a> app but there was a snafu<\/a> with permissions (that’s been resolved), but in the meantime, I found Buzzkill and I’m happy with it!!<\/p>\n

Two pluses is that Buzzkill requires few Android permissions and it is made by a reputable presence on the internets, Sam Ruston<\/a>. Thanks, Sam!<\/p>\n

The next adventure is to make it so Google Calendar Alarms can be created from within Obsidian<\/a>. I know it’s possible with some plugins but I’m not there yet. (I’ve become a big fan of Obsidian!!)<\/p>\n

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I’ve been struggling with this one for a while but I finally have a solid solution! I found an app that makes my Google Calendar alarms more prominent! The problem being that the standard Google Calendar Alarm on my android phone is a simple “Ding”. Changing that sound to be longer isn’t any good because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}