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Sending emails is too old, and requires a full online app to send you the reminder. Only google or other big corps support this because a bounced email is retried many hours later... Heck, just the sending might suppose delays. The current calendar solutions give push notifications to clients (e.g. PC or phone)
There's no better solution to a problem than, "your problem is wrong."
Counterpoint: if you system is configured such that the mere act of trying to send an email results in serious delays and regular bounces, you're doing email wrong. Even push notifications may require third party routing through Google, Apple, or similar to get to the core OS in some cases.
Yes, I recognize that hosting an SMTP server is difficult these days and can't always be done at home due to IP restrictions. But that doesn't mean you have to have an email server at home. I have a third party email on my domain and I can dispatch SMTP which arrives at expected non-delayed times even to Google and Microsoft accounts.
I honestly wish more software would simply speak to an SMTP server of choice rather than defaulting to just hitting the CLI mail send or attempting a direct SMTP connection.