This post aimed to look at the bigger picture and explain everything you need to do—and why—in order to document your project using Sphinx. The first few steps, i.e. cloning the repository, installing both a virtual environment and Sphinx, and setting up ReadtheDocs are one-time actions that you won’t have to think about again. Writing will take up most of your time (as it should). Pushing your docs to Github will become a matter of repeating the same steps over again.