--- a/templates/README.md	Sun May 07 11:46:28 2017 +0200
+++ b/templates/README.md	Sun May 07 11:56:37 2017 +0200
@@ -8,4 +8,9 @@
 
     madonctl timeline --limit 2 --template-file ansi-status.tmpl
 
-Feel free to contribute if you have nice templates of if you want to work on themes as well!
+The template prefix directory can be set in the configuration file with the 'template_directory' setting,
+or with the `MADONCTL_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY` environment variable. \
+If set, template files are looked up relatively from this repository first
+(unless they are absolute paths or start with "./" or "../").
+
+Feel free to contribute if you have nice templates or if you want to work on themes as well!