diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index af695c4..c256d00 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ repos:
       - id: nbstripout
         exclude: |
           (?x)(
-              docs/examples/|
-              docs/notes/
+              docs/examples/
           )
   - repo: https://github.com/Lucas-C/pre-commit-hooks
     rev: v1.1.9
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 716fc3a..d093047 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This package provides efficient and scalable handling of flow and mass cytometry
 - access to the entire [scanpy](https://scanpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) workflow functionality
 - GPU support through [rapids](https://github.com/clara-parabricks/rapids-single-cell-examples)
 
-Follow [https://twitter.com/marenbuettner](https://twitter.com/marenbuettner) to learn about a first public release.
+Follow [https://twitter.com/marenbuettner](https://twitter.com/marenbuettner) for updates.
 
 For the code enthusiasts: Find our code base on [Github](https://github.com/buettnerlab/pytometry).
 
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ or from GitHub:
 pip install git+https://github.com/buettnerlab/pytometry.git
 ```
 
+## Updates
+
+- October 12th 2022: First public release announcement on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/marenbuettner/status/1580160765201244161?s=20&t=mTBLcUaqKs9eMzEpOWnG0g)
+
 ## Citation
 
 Pytometry is currently a pre-print on [bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.10.511546v1).
diff --git a/docs/guides/curate-data.ipynb b/docs/guides/curate-data.ipynb
deleted file mode 100644
index 426819a..0000000
--- a/docs/guides/curate-data.ipynb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-{
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "0a9571ac-9c68-437f-ba51-95d06e283cac",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "# How to curate data"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "0abfc3c7",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "```{note}\n",
-    "Any guide notebook is automatically run for testing! If a cell fails, the tests will fail! Try changing the assert statement below to observe.\n",
-    "\n",
-    "Note that task notebooks are neither tested, nor being built!\n",
-    "```"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "bcc0c374-0224-4935-b862-0b013c624375",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "assert 1 == 1"
-   ]
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3.9.13 64-bit",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.9.13"
-  },
-  "vscode": {
-   "interpreter": {
-    "hash": "b0fa6594d8f4cbf19f97940f81e996739fb7646882a419484c72d19e05852a7e"
-   }
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
-}
diff --git a/docs/guides/index.md b/docs/guides/index.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b4baa7..0000000
--- a/docs/guides/index.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Guides
-
-These are guides on specific problems. The notebooks are executed in CI for testing.
-
-```{toctree}
-:maxdepth: 1
-
-curate-data
-```
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 9d17635..bec4f2b 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ```{include} ../README.md
 :start-line: 0
-:end-line: 38
+:end-line: 42
 ```
 
 ```{toctree}
@@ -10,7 +10,5 @@
 tutorials/index
 api
 examples/index
-guides/index
-notes/index
 changelog
 ```
diff --git a/docs/notes/YYYY-MM-DD-my-design-choice.ipynb b/docs/notes/YYYY-MM-DD-my-design-choice.ipynb
deleted file mode 100644
index ada86be..0000000
--- a/docs/notes/YYYY-MM-DD-my-design-choice.ipynb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "1d7b3b73-75f9-468d-8783-873ebadcab9b",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "# My design choice"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "97ec6631-8473-4a2d-b488-def921bb83de",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "import pytometry"
-   ]
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.9.7"
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
-}
diff --git a/docs/notes/index.md b/docs/notes/index.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc82ca3..0000000
--- a/docs/notes/index.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Notes
-
-These are any notes on design decisions, prototypes, background that do not make it into the package.
-
-```{toctree}
-:maxdepth: 1
-:glob:
-:reversed:
-
-*
-```
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/index.md b/docs/tutorials/index.md
index e3f4053..20023b0 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/index.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/index.md
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Tutorials
 
-A step-wise pedagogic tutorial including a quickstart. The notebooks get executed in CI for testing.
-
-Ideally, each feature is explained in a separate clean notebook.
-
-This makes it both easy for the user to understand the documentation, and for the developer to increase test coverage.
+These tutorials show how to use the pytometry functionality.
 
 ```{toctree}
 :maxdepth: 1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a03ece7..80d7436 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ preview = true
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 testpaths = [
     "tests",
-    "docs/guides",
     "docs/tutorials",
 ]