Notification feed or Activity feed

I am trying to include either the Activity feed or notification feed in either a custom page or custom component.

To include the activity feed I use:

<@component id="forums.widget.activity-feed"/>

And for notification feed:

<@component id="notification-feed"/>

 Neither worked.

However if I include the notification-feed component on the notification page, it works fine. Which made me think that it needs to be in the context of the notification page.  So I copied the page and then included that in my component:

<@component id="quilt:custom-notification-page"/>

But still no luck. Any tips here why this won't work?