diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e514ef36..8428eee5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@
 
 polybar-*.tar
 *.cache
+
+.venv
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index bf95a390..43dddfba 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Installing these packages is only really needed on readthedocs, building
+# locally works as long as sphinx is installed.
+# For local development, you may want to install some of these though.
+sphinx~=7.2.6
 sphinx-rtd-theme~=1.3.0
 sphinx-notfound-page~=1.0.0
 readthedocs-sphinx-search~=0.3.1