diff --git a/backend/scripts/generate_pages_config.py b/backend/scripts/generate_pages_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4837743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/scripts/generate_pages_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import argparse
+import json
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from transcribee_backend.config import PageConfig
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("input_dir", type=Path)
+    parser.add_argument("output", type=Path)
+    parser.add_argument("--footer-pages", nargs="+", default=[])
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    pages = {}
+    for file in args.input_dir.glob("*.md"):
+        name = file.stem
+        with open(file) as f:
+            text = f.read()
+            match = re.search(r"^#\s+(.*?)$", text, re.MULTILINE)
+            if match:
+                name = match.group(1)
+        pages[file.stem] = {"name": name, "text": text}
+        footer_position = None
+        try:
+            footer_position = args.footer_pages.index(file.stem)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+
+        pages[file.stem] = PageConfig(
+            name=name, footer_position=footer_position, text=text
+        )
+
+    with open(args.output, "w") as f:
+        json.dump({k: dict(v) for k, v in pages.items()}, f)
diff --git a/doc/development_setup.md b/doc/development_setup.md
index 8a2ead27..70ad6535 100644
--- a/doc/development_setup.md
+++ b/doc/development_setup.md
@@ -53,6 +53,24 @@ If you do more development on transcribee, you may wish to do the following thin
 - Install the [`pre-commit`](https://pre-commit.com/) hook so that your changes are automatically
   linted before you commit them. Run: `pre-commit install`
 
+## Add pages
+
+`transcribee` contains a minimal page system.
+To add pages, add a `pages.json` in `backend/data`.
+You can generate such a `pages.json` from a directory of markdown-files using the following command in the `backend/`-folder.
+
+```shell
+pdm run generate_pages_json PATH/TO/MARKDOWN/FOLDER data/pages.json
+```
+
+You can select which pages should be always shown in the footer using the `--footer-pages` option to the script. For example if you wanted the content of `page1.md` and `page2.md` to be shown in the footer, run
+
+```
+pdm run generate_pages_json PATH/TO/MARKDOWN/FOLDER data/pages.json --footer-pages page1 page2
+```
+
+The link text is automatically generated from the first first-level heading in the document.
+
 ## More!
 
 There are more specific instructions in the respective readme files of the