diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97fe5c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "rust-analyzer.linkedProjects": [
+        "./odilia-notify/Cargo.toml"
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bc870ac2..c4b80020 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2271,7 +2271,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "num_cpus",
- "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
  "socket2 0.5.6",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 826c991e..039a5d69 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 [workspace]
-default-members = ["odilia"]
+resolver="2"
+default-members = ["odilia", "odilia-notify"]
 members = [
   "cache",
   "common",
   "input",
   "odilia",
-"odilia-notify",
+  "odilia-notify",
 ]
 
 [profile.release]
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ odilia-cache = { version = "0.3.0", path = "./cache" }
 eyre = "0.6.8"
 nix = "0.26.2"
 serde_json = "1.0.89"
+serde = { version = "1.0.194", features = ["derive"] }
 ssip-client-async = { default-features = false, features = ["tokio"], version = "0.10.0" }
 tokio = { version = "^1.22.0", default-features = false, features = ["sync", "macros", "rt", "signal", "tracing"] }
 tracing = "^0.1.37"
@@ -47,6 +49,6 @@ tracing-log = "^0.1.3"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.16", default-features = false, features = ["env-filter", "parking_lot"] }
 tracing-error = "^0.2.0"
 tracing-tree = "^0.2.2"
-zbus = { version = "^3.6.2", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
+zbus = { version = "3.14.1", features = ["tokio"] }
 serde_plain = "1.0.1"
 
diff --git a/odilia-notify/Cargo.toml b/odilia-notify/Cargo.toml
index cc73351a..2edf1399 100644
--- a/odilia-notify/Cargo.toml
+++ b/odilia-notify/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,11 +14,10 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 futures = "0.3.30"
-serde = { version = "1.0.194", features = ["derive"] }
+serde.workspace=true
 thiserror = "1.0.56"
-tokio = { version = "1.35.1", features = ["full"] }
-tracing = "0.1.40"
-zbus = { version = "3.14.1", features = ["tokio"] }
-
+tokio.workspace=true
+tracing.workspace=true
+zbus.workspace=true
 [dev-dependencies]
 notify-rust = "4.10.0"
diff --git a/odilia-notify/src/notification.rs b/odilia-notify/src/notification.rs
index af919dad..838cbce0 100644
--- a/odilia-notify/src/notification.rs
+++ b/odilia-notify/src/notification.rs
@@ -23,3 +23,43 @@ impl TryFrom<Arc<Message>> for Notification {
 		Ok(Notification { app_name, title, body })
 	}
 }
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+	use zbus::names::UniqueName;
+
+	use super::*;
+	#[test]
+	fn correctly_formatted_message_leads_to_a_correct_notification() -> Result<(), zbus::Error>
+	{
+		// Simulate a method call to the org.freedesktop.notifications interface
+		let message = Message::method(
+			Some(":0.1"), //I can't pass none here, because of type needed errors, so passing dummy values for now
+			Some(":0.3"), //same here
+			"/org/freedesktop/notifications",
+			Some("org.freedesktop.notifications"),
+			"notify",
+			&(
+				"ExampleApp",
+				0u32,
+				"summary",
+				"Test Title",
+				"Test Body",
+				Vec::<&str>::new(),
+				HashMap::<&str, Value>::new(),
+				0,
+			),
+		)?;
+
+		//make this into an arc, to use the try_from implementation used in the wild
+		let message = Arc::new(message);
+		// Convert the Message into a Notification
+		let notification = Notification::try_from(message)?;
+
+		// Assert that the conversion was successful and the fields are as expected
+		assert_eq!(notification.app_name, "ExampleApp");
+		assert_eq!(notification.title, "Test Title");
+		assert_eq!(notification.body, "Test Body");
+
+		Ok(())
+	}
+}