diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 21064e56..f527284c 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -20,3 +20,8 @@ help:
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/* auto_examples _collections modules
+
+html-noplot:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -D plot_gallery=0 -D jupyter_execute_notebooks=off -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(SOURCEDIR) $(BUILDDIR)/html
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html."
diff --git a/docs/contributors.md b/docs/contributors.md
index d1b4e160..768ec359 100644
--- a/docs/contributors.md
+++ b/docs/contributors.md
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ contributors are given in the
 [issue tracker](https://github.com/deepmind/optax/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue).
 Ideas for good starter contributions are also welcomed.
 
+#### Improving the documentation
+
+If you would like to help contributing to the documentation, install the
+required packages by running `pip install .[docs]`.
+Then, to build the docs, from the docs folder, run `make html` to build all docs
+and notebooks or `make html-noplot` to build the docs without executing
+the notebooks (much faster).
+
 ## Core Maintainers
 
 *   [Iurii Kemaev](https://github.com/hbq1)