diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index 7fe652f..550e388 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -87,14 +87,10 @@ func rssfetch(cmd *cobra.Command, urls []string) {
 
 // rootCmd represents the base command when called without any subcommands
 var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
-	Use:   "rssfetch",
-	Short: "A brief description of your application",
-	Long: `A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains
-examples and usage of using your application. For example:
-
-Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
-This application is a tool to generate the needed files
-to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
+	Use:   "rssfetch <url> [url ...]",
+	Short: "rssfetch outputs items contained in rss feeds",
+	Long: `rssfetch outputs items contained in rss feeds.
+You can specify the output format with the -o flag. For instance, -o "{{.Title}}" will only output the title of each item.`,
 	Run:  rssfetch,
 	Args: cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
 }