diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b6ffae..ec68eae 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Startify basically provides two things:
    it reads from STDIN), startify will show a small but pretty start screen
    which shows recently used files and sessions by default.
 
+   You can either navigate to a certain menu entry or you just key in whatever
+   is written between the square brackets on that line.
+
 2) It eases handling of loading and saving sessions by only working with a
    certain directory. Two commands are used for convenience:
 
diff --git a/doc/startify.txt b/doc/startify.txt
index b14e2ab..75e4cfa 100644
--- a/doc/startify.txt
+++ b/doc/startify.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Startify basically provides two things:
    it reads from STDIN), startify will show a small but pretty start screen
    which shows recently used files and sessions by default.
 
+   You can either navigate to a certain menu entry or you just key in whatever
+   is written between the square brackets on that line.
+
 2) It eases handling of loading and saving sessions by only working with a
    certain directory. Two commands are used for convenience: