diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index 0cc8b91..03fd64b 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Now you've installed `ephemetoot`, in order to actually use it you will need an
 
 ## Configuration file
 
-Configuration for each user is set up in the `config.yaml` file. This uses [yaml syntax](https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) and can be updated at any time without having to reload `ephemetoot`.
+By default, configuration for each user is expected to be in a file called `config.yaml` in the path from where `ephemetoot` is run. This uses [yaml syntax](https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) and can be updated at any time without having to reload/restart `ephemetoot`.
 
 You can create a config file by hand, but the easiest way to do it is with the `--init` flag:
 
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ You can create a config file by hand, but the easiest way to do it is with the `
 ephemetoot --init
 ```
 
-This will ask you to fill in information for each part of the file:
+Calling `--init` will save your configuration file as `config.yaml` in the current directory. Once this file has been created, you may change the name or move the file if you prefer. See [`--config`](./options.html#specify-the-config-location-config) for more detail on using a non-default configuration filepath.
+
+`--init` will ask you to fill in information for each part of the file:
 
 | setting | description   |
 | ---:  |   :---        |
diff --git a/docs/options.md b/docs/options.md
index 5320ea3..db581d1 100644
--- a/docs/options.md
+++ b/docs/options.md
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ It is **strongly recommended** that you do a test run before using `ephemetoot`
 
 ## Create your config file (--init)
 
-Before you can use `ephemetoot` you need a `config.yaml` file. You can create this yourself, but `--init` will walk you through the values you need and save your `config.yaml` file in the directory from which you run the command:
+Before you can use `ephemetoot` you need a configuration file. You can create this yourself, but `--init` will walk you through the values you need and save it to `config.yaml` in the directory from which you run the command:
 
 ```shell
 ephemetoot --init
 ```
 
-More information about the config file can be found on teh _[Installation](./install.md)_ page, and an [example file](https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot/blob/master/example-config.yaml) is available on GitHub.
+More information about the config file can be found on the _[Installation](./install.md#configuration-file)_ page, and an [example file](https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot/blob/master/example-config.yaml) is available on GitHub.
 
 ## Run in test mode (--test)