diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b27a5e51..a41fc99c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1169,6 +1169,21 @@ traitlets = ">=5.3"
 docs = ["myst-parser", "pydata-sphinx-theme", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints", "sphinxcontrib-github-alt", "sphinxcontrib-spelling", "traitlets"]
 test = ["ipykernel", "pre-commit", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-timeout"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "livereload"
+version = "2.6.3"
+description = "Python LiveReload is an awesome tool for web developers"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "livereload-2.6.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ad4ac6f53b2d62bb6ce1a5e6e96f1f00976a32348afedcb4b6d68df2a1d346e4"},
+    {file = "livereload-2.6.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:776f2f865e59fde56490a56bcc6773b6917366bce0c267c60ee8aaf1a0959869"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+six = "*"
+tornado = {version = "*", markers = "python_version > \"2.7\""}
+
 [[package]]
 name = "markdown-it-py"
 version = "3.0.0"
@@ -2869,6 +2884,25 @@ sphinx = ">=1.2.0"
 [package.extras]
 markdown = ["CommonMark (>=0.5.6)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sphinx-autobuild"
+version = "2021.3.14"
+description = "Rebuild Sphinx documentation on changes, with live-reload in the browser."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "sphinx-autobuild-2021.3.14.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:de1ca3b66e271d2b5b5140c35034c89e47f263f2cd5db302c9217065f7443f05"},
+    {file = "sphinx_autobuild-2021.3.14-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8fe8cbfdb75db04475232f05187c776f46f6e9e04cacf1e49ce81bdac649ccac"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorama = "*"
+livereload = "*"
+sphinx = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+test = ["pytest", "pytest-cov"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sphinx-basic-ng"
 version = "1.0.0b2"
@@ -3204,6 +3238,26 @@ files = [
     {file = "toposort-1.10.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bfbb479c53d0a696ea7402601f4e693c97b0367837c8898bc6471adfca37a6bd"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tornado"
+version = "6.4"
+description = "Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">= 3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:02ccefc7d8211e5a7f9e8bc3f9e5b0ad6262ba2fbb683a6443ecc804e5224ce0"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:27787de946a9cffd63ce5814c33f734c627a87072ec7eed71f7fc4417bb16263"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:f7894c581ecdcf91666a0912f18ce5e757213999e183ebfc2c3fdbf4d5bd764e"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_5_i686.manylinux1_i686.manylinux_2_17_i686.manylinux2014_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:e43bc2e5370a6a8e413e1e1cd0c91bedc5bd62a74a532371042a18ef19e10579"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:f0251554cdd50b4b44362f73ad5ba7126fc5b2c2895cc62b14a1c2d7ea32f212"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-musllinux_1_1_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:fd03192e287fbd0899dd8f81c6fb9cbbc69194d2074b38f384cb6fa72b80e9c2"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-musllinux_1_1_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:88b84956273fbd73420e6d4b8d5ccbe913c65d31351b4c004ae362eba06e1f78"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:71ddfc23a0e03ef2df1c1397d859868d158c8276a0603b96cf86892bff58149f"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:6f8a6c77900f5ae93d8b4ae1196472d0ccc2775cc1dfdc9e7727889145c45052"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4-cp38-abi3-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:10aeaa8006333433da48dec9fe417877f8bcc21f48dda8d661ae79da357b2a63"},
+    {file = "tornado-6.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:72291fa6e6bc84e626589f1c29d90a5a6d593ef5ae68052ee2ef000dfd273dee"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "traitlets"
 version = "5.14.0"
@@ -3437,4 +3491,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8,<3.13"
-content-hash = "62707a818362d0df5814c977e19c47a9ee8cfd725b8b20df463424fec03314ae"
+content-hash = "4459cb2d78afd30bbc8fea399c58f63de40e47314bcf4ff6505a16298f2581d6"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cf01b416..670e6de9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ furo = "^2023.9.10"
 sphinx-copybutton = "^0.5.2"
 sphinx-reredirects = "^0.1.3"
 sphinx-design = "^0.5.0"
+sphinx-autobuild = "^2021.3.14"
 
 [tool.poetry.scripts]
 snakebids = "snakebids.admin:main"
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ pytest --doctest-modules --ignore=docs \
 """
 mkinit.shell = "mkinit --recursive --nomods -i snakebids && ruff format snakebids && ruff check --fix --select I001 snakebids "
 benchmark = "pytest --benchmark-only --benchmark-autosave"
+docs = "sphinx-autobuild docs build/docs --watch snakebids -W"
 
 [tool.poe.tasks._get_version]
 imports = ["platform"]