diff --git a/docs/content/harvest-tools.rst b/docs/content/harvest-tools.rst
index ead417b..67ea1bf 100644
--- a/docs/content/harvest-tools.rst
+++ b/docs/content/harvest-tools.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
-=================================================================
-harvest-tools: binary archive and format conversion tool
-=================================================================
+============
+HarvestTools
+============
+**Archiving and postprocessing**
 
-Project home page: https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools
+HarvestTools is a utility for creating and interfacing with Gingr files, which
+are efficient archives that the Harvest Suite uses to store reference-compressed
+multi-alignments, phylogenetic trees, filtered variants and annotations. Though
+designed for use with Parsnp and Gingr, HarvestTools can also be used for
+generic conversion between standard bioinformatics file formats.
 
-harvest-tools primarily serves as a reference-based compression tool for large genomic datasets. In addition, it serves as a proxy between several alignment and variant & annotated feature formats. While it was designed for use with both Parsnp & Gingr, it can also be used as standalone tool to efficiently compress multiple alignments, variants, phylogenies and annotations to a single convenient binary archive.   
+**Download (v1.2)**
 
-Contents:
+ * `harvesttools-OSX64-v1.2.zip <https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools/releases/download/v1.2/harvesttools-OSX64-v1.2.zip/>`_
+ * `harvesttools-Linux64-v1.2.tar.gz <https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools/releases/download/v1.2/harvesttools-Linux64-v1.2.tar.gz/>`_
+
+**Documentation**
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
@@ -19,3 +27,10 @@ Contents:
    harvest/tutorial
    harvest/source
    harvest/license
+
+`All releases`_ ~ `Source code`_ ~ `Report an issue`_
+
+.. _All releases: https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools/releases
+.. _Source code: https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools
+.. _Report an issue: https://github.com/marbl/harvest-tools/issues
+
diff --git a/docs/content/parsnp.rst b/docs/content/parsnp.rst
index 6e15081..2363a82 100644
--- a/docs/content/parsnp.rst
+++ b/docs/content/parsnp.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-=========================================
-Parsnp: rapid core genome multi-alignment
-=========================================
+======
+Parsnp 
+======
+**Rapid core genome multi-alignment**
 
 Project home page: https://github.com/marbl/parsnp
 
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index b52f5a0..6ac2dc4 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ detection, and phylogenetic trees.
 .. toctree::
    :hidden:
 
-   content/gingr
    content/parsnp
+   content/gingr
    content/harvest-tools