diff --git a/ci/requirements/doc.yml b/ci/requirements/doc.yml
index 8a76fae..a9908ce 100644
--- a/ci/requirements/doc.yml
+++ b/ci/requirements/doc.yml
@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@ channels:
 dependencies:
   - python=3.8
   - dask
-  - docrep
   - ipython
   - matplotlib
-  - nbsphinx
   - numpy
   - numpydoc
   - pangeo-sphinx-book-theme
@@ -17,6 +15,12 @@ dependencies:
   - sphinx-autosummary-accessors
   - sphinx-copybutton
   - xarray
+  # For examples
+  - adlfs
+  - ipykernel
+  - nbsphinx
+  - zarr
+  # Editable xbatcher installation
   - pip
   - pip:
       # relative to this file. Needs to be editable to be accepted.
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index a86a59b..7addfa4 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
     "sphinx_copybutton",
 ]
 
-# never execute notebooks: avoids lots of expensive imports on rtd
+# only execute notebooks without any outputs
 # https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/0.2.14/never-execute.html
-nbsphinx_execute = "never"
+nbsphinx_execute = "auto"
 
 
 # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5599254/how-to-use-sphinxs-autodoc-to-document-a-classs-init-self-method
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def setup(app):
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
-exclude_patterns = ["_build"]
+exclude_patterns = ["_build", "**.ipynb_checkpoints"]
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
 # documents.
diff --git a/doc/demo.ipynb b/doc/demo.ipynb
index eea19e9..b0ec97d 100644
--- a/doc/demo.ipynb
+++ b/doc/demo.ipynb
@@ -386,22 +386,11 @@
     "\n",
     "More thoughts on 1. and 2. can be found in [this issue](https://github.com/xarray-contrib/xbatcher/issues/30). Interested users are welcomed to comment or submit other issues in GitHub. "
    ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "6d685a90-3d07-4c07-bfdd-c85172a54daf",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "%load_ext watermark\n",
-    "%watermark -iv"
-   ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "display_name": "Python 3.9.13 ('xbatcher-tests')",
    "language": "python",
    "name": "python3"
   },
@@ -415,11 +404,11 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.11.0 (main, Oct 24 2022, 17:48:40) [GCC 11.3.0]"
+   "version": "3.9.13"
   },
   "vscode": {
    "interpreter": {
-    "hash": "af810c6721ae61030b73d9de2967bfb7a3088a28e7f243bda7b2d2ca2c498323"
+    "hash": "64c578a0a9f6dde4e1dfaddaa39417770d5e50fec039804eaf1eb97ef756c00c"
    }
   }
  },