getting started with remind

hi!

I’ve been curious about Remind for a long time after reading Mike Harris’ introduction, but only just got around to trying to install/use it.

I’ve never done anything in Terminal (like several other people who left comments to the original post), but after a lot of fiddling around I managed to install the program and set up a .reminders file. Problem is, I can’t seem to actually figure out how to call up any of the reminders. “rem” or “remind” (and variants of) are “command[s] not found.”

I know so little that I’m not even sure what information I need to give to get help, but if anyone has a sense of where a newbie would likely go wrong, or could offer any pointers, I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

Jennifer