diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 15641c18..5398903e 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ build:
 
 python:
   install:
-    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
     - method: pip
       path: .
+      extra_requirements:
+        - docs
 
 sphinx:
   builder: html
diff --git a/binder/requirements.txt b/binder/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..31f1d651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/binder/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+jupytext>=1.13.3
+jupyterlab_myst
+myst_nb
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index dbe7e0ed..00000000
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-jupyter-book==0.14
-jupytext>=1.13.3
-jupyterlab_myst
-myst_nb
-ipywidgets
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 64e15be4..57245bb4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ maintainers = [
   {name = "Joris Vincent", email = "j.vincent@tu-berlin.de"},
 ]
 
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
 requires-python = ">=3.6"
 dependencies = [
   "numpy",
@@ -32,7 +34,14 @@ dependencies = [
   "Pillow"
 ]
 
-dynamic = ["version"]
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+docs = [
+  "jupyter-book==0.14",
+  "jupytext>=1.13.3",
+  "jupyterlab_myst",
+  "myst_nb",
+  "ipywidgets",
+]
 
 [project.urls]
 repository = "https://github.com/computational-psychology/stimupy.git"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8095a5d6..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-numpy
-scipy
-pandas
-Pillow
-pytest
-
--r docs/requirements.txt
\ No newline at end of file