diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6050ca4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# polylog
+polylog is an intentionally simple logger module for Node.js
+
+## Usage
+    var pLog = require('polylog');
+    // create new Error label with full options
+    var perr = pLog.new('Error', {logTime: true, logLabel: true, toTTY: true, toFile: 'error.log'});
+    var object = { error: 'oops!' };
+    perr('oh no, error: ', object);
+    // or, get default stdout/TTY Logger
+    var plog = pLog.log;
+
+See `test.js` for more cases.