# Writing documentation for a project with DrWatson
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, documentation, documenter, drwatson
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554 "2022-05-24T07:32:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@roi.holtzman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roi.holtzman)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554/1 "2022-05-24T07:32:09Z")
I have a [DrWatson](https://docs.juliahub.com/DrWatson/Vn5dT/1.15.1/) project for which I want to write some documentation.
I was wondering if I can use [Documenter.jl](https://juliadocs.github.io/Documenter.jl/stable/) even though this is a project and not a package.
Are there any tips for writing documentation for a project?
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### Author:  [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554/2 "2022-05-24T09:05:32Z")
Hm, I’m surprised by this, because I didn’t know Documenter.jl was only for packages… Where did the process fail for you? Can you try it out and report the error message or what didn’t work? I would expect things to work as usual.
Ah, I guess you’d have to put your source code into a module, or explicitly load the source files in the first example code block Documenter would come across. E.g., here I force Documenter to expand first this file: [DynamicalSystems.jl/make.jl at main · JuliaDynamics/DynamicalSystems.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/DynamicalSystems.jl/blob/master/docs/make.jl#L94) and in this file I load some stuff: [DynamicalSystems.jl/index.md at main · JuliaDynamics/DynamicalSystems.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/DynamicalSystems.jl/blob/master/docs/src/index.md?plain=1#L135) . In your case this would include source code. (If you’ve made your DrWatson project into a module none of this is necessary; simply load the module).
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### Author:  [@roi.holtzman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roi.holtzman)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554/3 "2022-05-24T09:19:01Z")
I did not yet try to use it, so it didn’t fail yet.
In this [part](https://juliadocs.github.io/Documenter.jl/stable/man/guide/#Building-an-Empty-Document) of the documentation of Documenter.jl they say to add the following to a `make.jl` file
```julia
using Documenter, Example
makedocs(sitename="My Documentation")
```
where `Example` here is the name of the package.
But since this is a project, I cannot do `using Example`. I did not try it yet, because I did not want to break anything in my package.
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554/4 "2022-05-24T09:25:26Z")
Documenter is not just for packages. If you don’t have a package `Example`, just don’t do `using Example`.
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### Author:  [@roi.holtzman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roi.holtzman)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-documentation-for-a-project-with-drwatson/81554/5 "2022-05-24T09:36:40Z")
True that!
I just had to load DrWatson and activate the project like so:
```julia
push!(LOAD_PATH,"../src/")
using DrWatson
@quickactivate "MyProject"
using Documenter
makedocs(sitename="My Documentation")
```