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@@ -325,6 +325,14 @@ All of ArchiveBox's state (including the index, snapshot data, and config file)
 The on-disk layout is optimized to be easy to browse by hand and durable long-term. The main index is a standard sqlite3 database (it can also be exported as static JSON/HTML), and the archive snapshots are organized by date-added timestamp in the `archive/` subfolder. Each snapshot subfolder includes a static JSON and HTML index describing its contents, and the snapshot extrator outputs are plain files within the folder (e.g. `media/example.mp4`, `git/somerepo.git`, `static/someimage.png`, etc.)
 
 ```bash
+# to browse your index statically without running the archivebox server, run:
+archivebox list --html --with-headers > index.html
+archivebox list --json --with-headers > index.json
+
+# then open the static index in a browser
+open index.html
+
+# or browse the snapshots via filesystem directly
  ls ./archive/<timestamp>/
 ```