diff --git a/cli/README.md b/cli/README.md
index 8fc9aa694..40858da0f 100644
--- a/cli/README.md
+++ b/cli/README.md
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ ente --help
 
 ### Accounts
 
-If you wish, you can add multiple accounts (your own and that of your family members) and export all data using this tool.
+If you wish, you can add multiple accounts (your own and that of your family
+members) and export all data using this tool.
 
 #### Add an account
 
@@ -44,6 +45,12 @@ If you wish, you can add multiple accounts (your own and that of your family mem
 ente account add
 ```
 
+> [!NOTE]
+>
+> `ente account add` does not create new accounts, it just adds pre-existing
+> accounts to the list of accounts that the CLI knows about so that you can use
+> them for other actions.
+
 #### List accounts
 
 ```shell
diff --git a/docs/docs/self-hosting/guides/custom-server/index.md b/docs/docs/self-hosting/guides/custom-server/index.md
index bf695af30..a5ce76cc2 100644
--- a/docs/docs/self-hosting/guides/custom-server/index.md
+++ b/docs/docs/self-hosting/guides/custom-server/index.md
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ configure the endpoint the app should be connecting to.
 > You can download the CLI from
 > [here](https://github.com/ente-io/ente/releases?q=tag%3Acli-v0)
 
-Define a config.yaml and put it either in the same directory as CLI or path
-defined in env variable `ENTE_CLI_CONFIG_PATH`
+Define a config.yaml and put it either in the same directory as where you run
+the CLI from ("current working directory"), or in the path defined in env
+variable `ENTE_CLI_CONFIG_PATH`:
 
 ```yaml
 endpoint:
     api: "http://localhost:8080"
 ```
+
+(Another [example](https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/cli/config.yaml.example))