diff --git a/localbin/.local/bin/batstatus b/localbin/.local/bin/batstatus
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b93e4e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/localbin/.local/bin/batstatus
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# get battery percentage and current time remaining
+
+acpi | awk -F '[, :]' '{print $6 " ~" $8":"$9}'
diff --git a/localbin/.local/bin/freememory b/localbin/.local/bin/freememory
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0afd42b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/localbin/.local/bin/freememory
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# simple script to show systemmemory in dwmblocks
+
+free -h | awk '/^Mem/ { print $3"/"$2 }' | sed s/i//g
diff --git a/zsh/.zshrc b/zsh/.zshrc
index c89209b..45825a9 100644
--- a/zsh/.zshrc
+++ b/zsh/.zshrc
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ export ZSH="/home/n0x/.oh-my-zsh"
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8  
 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
+export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
+
+
 ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
 
 HIST_STAMPS="yyyy-mm-dd"