diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ef3f6d..144e7d8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,12 +6,15 @@
 - An implementation of POSIX Utilities (`coreutils`, `bsdutils`, `busybox`, ...)
 - An implementation of `file(1)` that supports `-b` and `-i` for mime-types (yours should)
 - `ed` (mentioning this separately since many unixes/distributions have it separately)
+- [`clipnotify`](https://github.com/cdown/clipnotify)
 - A newline-delimited menu program (`dmenu`, `rofi`, `bemenu`, `fzfmenu`, ...)
 - (Optional, but recommended) `notify-send`
 
 ## using
 put `shclip-{daemon,menu}` in your `$PATH` and start `shclip-daemon` in a way where it can read `$DISPLAY`. everything should Just Work, hopefully. to use the menu, run `shclip-menu`
 
+to see the command-line opticons for `shclip-daemon`, run `shclip-daemon -h`
+
 `shclip` reads a config file at `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/shclip/config` and reads filters from `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/shclip/filter.sh`. if `config` doesn't exist, then the defaults as specified in the file are used. if `filter.sh` doesn't exist, then filtering won't happen whether it's enabled or not.
 
 if filtering is enabled, every text clip will be sent to the stdin of `filter.sh` and be replaced by its stdout. A simple replacement filter is provided as an example
diff --git a/shclip-daemon b/shclip-daemon
index d45eaac..4a2c1fd 100755
--- a/shclip-daemon
+++ b/shclip-daemon
@@ -22,10 +22,13 @@ SHCLIP_TEMP_DIR="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}}/shclip-$USER-$DISPLAY"
 
 errecho() { printf '%s\n' "$*" >&2; }
 exists() { command -v "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
-
+notify() {
+	errecho "$*"
+	exists notify-send && notify-send "$*"
+	:
+}
 fail() {
-	errecho "error: $BN: $*"
-	exists notify-send && notify-send "error: $BN: $*"
+	notify "error: $BN: $*"
 	exit 1
 }
 
@@ -41,12 +44,10 @@ cleanup() {
 toggle() {
 	if [ -z "$SHCLIP_ENABLED" ]; then
 		SHCLIP_ENABLED=1
-		errecho "shclip enabled!"
-		exists notify-send && notify-send "shclip enabled!"
+		notify "shclip enabled!"
 	else
 		SHCLIP_ENABLED=""
-		errecho "shclip disabled!"
-		exists notify-send && notify-send "shclip disabled!"
+		notify "shclip disabled!"
 	fi
 	kill "$clipnotify_pid"
 }
@@ -54,12 +55,10 @@ toggle() {
 filter_toggle() {
 	if [ -z "$SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED" ]; then
 		SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED=1
-		errecho "shclip filter enabled!"
-		exists notify-send && notify-send "shclip filter enabled!"
+		notify "shclip filter enabled!"
 	else
 		SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED=""
-		errecho "shclip filter disabled!"
-		exists notify-send && notify-send "shclip filter disabled!"
+		notify "shclip filter disabled!"
 	fi
 	kill "$clipnotify_pid"
 }
@@ -124,8 +123,7 @@ updateclip() {
 	# check if clip exceeds memory limit
 	sz="$(du -k "$BUFFER")"
 	if [ "${sz%%${TAB}*}" -gt "$SHCLIP_MEMORY_LIMIT" ]; then
-		errecho 'clip exceeds memory threshold! not caching...'
-		exists notify-send && notify-send 'clip exceeds memory threshold! not caching...'
+		notify 'clip exceeds memory threshold! not caching...'
 		rm -f "$BUFFER"
 		return 0
 	fi
@@ -141,7 +139,7 @@ updateclip() {
 			# apply text filters
 			[ -n "$SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED" ] && [ -f "$SHCLIP_CONFIG_DIR/filter.sh" ] && \
 				sh "$SHCLIP_CONFIG_DIR/filter.sh" < "$BUFFER" | diff "$BUFFER" - | patch "$BUFFER"
-			xclip -sel clipboard "$BUFFER" 
+			xclip -sel clipboard "$BUFFER"
 			[ -n "$SHCLIP_SYNC_CLIPBOARD" ] && xclip -sel primary "$BUFFER"
 			;;
 		*) ;;
@@ -166,16 +164,34 @@ updateclip() {
 [ -z "${DISPLAY:-}" ] && fail 'Cannot find $DISPLAY. Is your X server running?'
 
 # parse options
-while getopts :pnf OPT; do
+while getopts :hn:f:s:p:c:m OPT; do
 	case $OPT in
-		n) SHCLIP_ENABLED="" ;;
-		f) SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED=1 ;;
+		h) cat >&2 <<-EOF
+				please refer to README for general usage:
+				  https://git.unix.dog/yosh/shclip
+
+				options that exist (overrides config file):
+				  -h       	    show this help
+				  -n <on|off>   enable/disable shclip on startup
+				  -f <on|off>   enable/disable filtering
+				  -s <on|off>   enable/disable syncing clipboard to primary
+				  -p <on|off>   enable/disable caching kde passwords
+				  -c <num>      set max clips to <num> clips
+				  -m <num>      set memory limit to <num> kibibytes
+			EOF
+			;;
+		n) [ "$OPTARG" = "on" ] && SHCLIP_ENABLED=1 || SHCLIP_ENABLED="" ;;
+		f) [ "$OPTARG" = "on" ] && SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED=1 || SHCLIP_FILTER_ENABLED="" ;;
+		s) [ "$OPTARG" = "on" ] && SHCLIP_SYNC_CLIPBOARD=1 || SHCLIP_SYNC_CLIPBOARD="" ;;
+		p) [ "$OPTARG" = "on" ] && SHCLIP_CACHE_PASSWORDS=1 || SHCLIP_CACHE_PASSWORDS="" ;;
+		c) SHCLIP_MAX_CLIPS=$OPTARG ;;
+		m) SHCLIP_MEMORY_LIMIT=$OPTARG ;;
 		*) fail "$BN: unknown option: -$OPTARG" ;;
 	esac
 done
 
 setup
-while 
+while
 	if [ -z "$SHCLIP_ENABLED" ]; then
 		:
 	else