diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d49db9ded07b3dbeb1087b90b99367a465d169fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+To build the sphinx documentation, run:
+
+```
+pip3 install sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
+
+make html
+```
+
+After which the documentation will be available in html format in the `build/html` directory.