diff --git a/shells/shared/aliases b/shells/shared/aliases
index 49c6778f..022bdf20 100644
--- a/shells/shared/aliases
+++ b/shells/shared/aliases
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ alias jq="jq -C"
 alias mbsync="mbsync -c \"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/isync/mbsyncrc.secret\""
 alias imapfilter="imapfilter -c \"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/imapfilter/config.lua\""
 
+# Makes rem output color by default
+alias rem="rem -@"
+
 
 ####################
 #  Path Shortcuts  #
diff --git a/shells/shared/environmentVariables b/shells/shared/environmentVariables
index e160a6da..9cca393c 100644
--- a/shells/shared/environmentVariables
+++ b/shells/shared/environmentVariables
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export BROWSER="firefox-developer-edition"
 export CDPATH=.:~:~/Projects:~/.dotfiles
 export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
 export NODE_PATH='/usr/lib/node_modules/'
+export DOTREMINDERS="$HOME/.config/remind/remind.rem"
 
 #Adds a list of all the sub directories in my .bin folder to a variable called mypath
 mypath="$HOME/.bin"
diff --git a/shells/zsh/STOW/.zshrc b/shells/zsh/STOW/.zshrc
index d2adc854..cb0ab6ea 100644
--- a/shells/zsh/STOW/.zshrc
+++ b/shells/zsh/STOW/.zshrc
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ else
 			mkdir "$current/shell-logs" 2> /dev/null
 			/usr/bin/script -f "$current/shell-logs/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log"
 		fi
+	else
+		rem -@
 	fi
 fi