diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 51ce43a..8c20cb6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ dev = [
     "pre-commit",
     "twine>=4.0.2"
 ]
-doc = [
+docs = [
     "docutils>=0.8,!=0.18.*,!=0.19.*", # see https://github.com/scverse/cookiecutter-scverse/pull/205
     "sphinx>=4.1",
     "ipython",
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ doc = [
     "myst-nb",
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints",
 ]
+docsbuild = ["popv[docs]"]
 test = [
     "pytest",
     "coverage",