diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6c06929..468b23c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# A lightweight simulation data creator and database manager
+# simplesimdb: A lightweight simulation data creator and database manager
+
 A python module for creation and management of simple simulation data.
 Essentially, a very basic database manager that creates its own data.
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 75d4740..4270637 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",
     "sphinx.ext.todo",
     "sphinx_autodoc_typehints",
-    "myst_nb",
+    "myst_parser",
 ]
 
 autosummary_generate = True
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index f605d88..73d791f 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -2,22 +2,9 @@
    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
-simplesimdb: A lightweight simulation data creator and database manager
-=======================================================================
 
-A python module for creation and management of simple simulation data.
-Essentially, a very basic database manager that creates its own data.
-
-Simplesimdb is typically used to generate and analyse research data
-from a Python script, where the data generation is done by an external
-(typically highly optimized, written in C/C++ say) code that generates
-an output for a given set of input parameters.  The emphasize here is
-on the fact that the parameter generation, code execution and data
-management loop is **automated**, which allows the user to run large
-parameter scans with a few lines of Python code **without manual
-interference**.  In this way for example publication grade plots can
-be (re-)produced from scratch by just executing Python scripts. (See
-for example the `impurities project <https://github.com/mwiesenberger/impurities>`_)
+.. include:: ../README.md
+   :parser: myst_parser.sphinx_
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b82f5d1..1e2ad30 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ docs = [
     "sphinx >= 5.3",
     "sphinx_autodoc_typehints >= 1.19",
     "sphinx-book-theme >= 0.4.0rc1",
-    "myst_nb",
+    "myst_parser",
 ]
 
 [build-system]