Appointment reminder app

I am looking for a simply appointment reminder app, I am NOT interested in anything online. As well as normal appointments I would like to be able to put in events that occur on particular day of the month, such as "2nd saturday, Local market". BSD Calendar would do exactly what I want but i cannot get it to print anything. When the command is run it does read the "calendar" file (checked that with ltrace), but never prints anything. Has anybody got BSD calendar to work, what should the data file look like. It would not be to difficult to write a simple app to do this but SURELY there must be something out there, hmmmmm a look at the source of BSD Calendar would probably be usefull. Lindsay