diff --git a/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py b/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4baef2fae164
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+c.NotebookApp.contents_manager_class = 'jupytext.TextFileContentsManager'  # noqa
+c.ContentsManager.preferred_jupytext_formats_read = 'py:sphinx'  # noqa
+c.ContentsManager.sphinx_convert_rst2md = True  # noqa
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ed5ff8bce332..68e5576c2f8d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-|Travis|_ |AppVeyor|_ |Codecov|_ |LGTM|_ |PyPi|_ |Gitter|_ |NUMFocus|_
+|Travis|_ |AppVeyor|_ |Codecov|_ |LGTM|_ |PyPi|_ |Gitter|_ |NUMFocus|_ |Examples|_ |Tutorials|_
 
 
 .. |Travis| image:: https://travis-ci.org/matplotlib/matplotlib.svg?branch=master
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
 .. |NUMFocus| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-NumFOCUS-orange.svg?style=flat&colorA=E1523D&colorB=007D8A
 .. _NUMFocus: http://www.numfocus.org
 
+.. |Examples| image:: https://mybinder.org/badge.svg
+.. _Examples: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/matplotlib/matplotlib/master?filepath=examples
+
+.. |Tutorials| image:: https://mybinder.org/badge.svg
+.. _Tutorials: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/matplotlib/matplotlib/master?filepath=tutorials
 
 ##########
 Matplotlib
diff --git a/binder/requirements.txt b/binder/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..68035bc1c6fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/binder/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+jupytext >= 0.7.0
+matplotlib