diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 957d47743..342bd62a8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ coverage.xml
 # Sphinx documentation
 docs/_build/
 
-# PyBuilder
-target/
-
 # Stored PDFs
 media/documents/*.gpg
 media/documents/thumbnails/*
@@ -68,14 +65,18 @@ media/overrides.js
 db.sqlite3
 db.sqlite3-journal
 
-# PyCharm
+# IDE files
+target/
 .idea
+.ropeproject
+.vscode
 
 # Other stuff that doesn't belong
 .virtualenv
 virtualenv
 docker-compose.yml
 docker-compose.env
+requirements.txt
 
 # Used for development
 scripts/import-for-development
diff --git a/docs/examples/lxc/lxc-install.sh b/docs/examples/lxc/lxc-install.sh
index b53858e3a..843d7e33c 100644
--- a/docs/examples/lxc/lxc-install.sh
+++ b/docs/examples/lxc/lxc-install.sh
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ su -c "cd /home/paperless ; git clone https://github.com/the-paperless-project/p
 
 # Install Pip Requirements
 apt-get -y install python3-pip python3-venv
+pip3 install pipenv
 cd /home/paperless/paperless
+pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 
 # Take paperless.conf.example and set consumuption dir (ftp dir)
diff --git a/docs/migrating.rst b/docs/migrating.rst
index c3e702bd5..b992d8717 100644
--- a/docs/migrating.rst
+++ b/docs/migrating.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ rolled in as part of the update:
 
     $ cd /path/to/project
     $ git pull
+    $ pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt
     $ pip install -r requirements.txt
     $ cd src
     $ ./manage.py migrate
diff --git a/docs/requirements.rst b/docs/requirements.rst
index 54f0d9216..af5e778fc 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.rst
+++ b/docs/requirements.rst
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ For the purposes of simplicity, ``python`` and ``pip`` is used everywhere to
 refer to their Python3 versions.
 
 In addition to the above, there are a number of Python requirements, all of
-which are listed in a file called ``requirements.txt`` in the project root
-directory.
+which are listed in a file called ``Pipfile`` in the project root directory.
 
 If you're not working on a virtual environment (like Docker), you
 should probably be using a virtualenv, but that's your call.  The reasons why
@@ -71,29 +70,44 @@ dependencies is easy:
 
 .. code:: bash
 
-    $ pip install --user --requirement /path/to/paperless/requirements.txt
+    $ cd /path/to/paperless
+    $ pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt
+    $ pip install --user --requirement requirements.txt
 
 This will download and install all of the requirements into
 ``${HOME}/.local``.  Remember that your distribution may be using ``pip3`` as
 mentioned above.
 
+If you don't have Pipenv installed, then you can install it using ``pip``:
+
+.. code:: Bash
+
+    $ pip install --user pipenv
+
 
 .. _requirements-virtualenv:
 
 Python-specific Requirements: Virtualenv
 ----------------------------------------
 
-Using a virtualenv for this is pretty straightforward: create a virtualenv,
-enter it, and install the requirements using the ``requirements.txt`` file:
+Using a virtualenv for Paperless is very easy, thanks to Pipenv. If you don't
+have Pipenv installed, then you can install it using ``pip``:
+
+.. code:: Bash
+
+    $ pip install --user pipenv
+
+With Pipenv available, it is trivial to create the virtual environment and
+install the requirements:
 
 .. code:: bash
 
-    $ virtualenv --python=/path/to/python3 /path/to/arbitrary/directory
-    $ . /path/to/arbitrary/directory/bin/activate
-    $ pip install  --requirement /path/to/paperless/requirements.txt
+    $ cd /path/to/paperless
+    $ pipenv --python 3
+    $ pipenv install
 
-Now you're ready to go.  Just remember to enter (activate) your virtualenv
-whenever you want to use Paperless.
+Now you're ready to go. Just remember to enter the virtual environment
+created by Pipenv using ``pipenv shell`` whenever you want to use Paperless.
 
 
 .. _requirements-documentation:
@@ -102,8 +116,8 @@ Documentation
 -------------
 
 As generation of the documentation is not required for the use of Paperless,
-dependencies for this process are not included in ``requirements.txt``.  If
-you'd like to generate your own docs locally, you'll need to:
+dependencies for this process are not included in ``Pipfile``. If you'd like
+to generate your own docs locally, you'll need to:
 
 .. code:: bash
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index c85559fa2..000000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
--i https://pypi.python.org/simple
-alabaster==0.7.12
-apipkg==1.5
-atomicwrites==1.3.0
-attrs==19.1.0
-babel==2.7.0
-brotli==1.0.7
-certifi==2019.6.16
-chardet==3.0.4
-coverage==4.5.4
-coveralls==1.5.1
-dateparser==0.7.0
-django-cors-headers==2.4.0
-django-crispy-forms==1.7.2
-django-extensions==2.1.4
-django-filter==2.1.0
-django==2.0.10
-djangoql==0.12.3
-djangorestframework==3.9.1
-docopt==0.6.2
-docutils==0.15.2
-execnet==1.6.1
-factory-boy==2.11.1
-faker==2.0.0
-filelock==3.0.12
-filemagic==1.6
-fuzzywuzzy[speedup]==0.15.0
-gunicorn==19.9.0
-idna==2.8
-imagesize==1.1.0
-importlib-metadata==0.19
-inotify-simple==1.1.8; sys_platform == 'linux'
-jinja2==2.10.1
-langdetect==1.0.7
-markupsafe==1.1.1
-more-itertools==7.2.0
-packaging==19.1
-pdftotext==2.1.1
-pillow==5.4.1
-pluggy==0.12.0
-ply==3.11
-psycopg2==2.8.4
-py==1.8.0
-pycodestyle==2.4.0
-pygments==2.4.2
-pyocr==0.5.3
-pyparsing==2.4.2
-pytest-cov==2.6.1
-pytest-django==3.4.5
-pytest-env==0.6.2
-pytest-forked==1.0.2
-pytest-sugar==0.9.2
-pytest-xdist==1.26.0
-pytest==4.1.1
-python-dateutil==2.7.5
-python-dotenv==0.10.1
-python-gnupg==0.4.4
-python-levenshtein==0.12.0
-pytz==2018.9
-regex==2019.6.8
-requests==2.22.0
-six==1.12.0
-snowballstemmer==1.9.0
-sphinx==1.8.3
-sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==1.0.2
-sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.2
-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.3
-termcolor==1.1.0
-text-unidecode==1.2
-toml==0.10.0
-tox==3.7.0
-tzlocal==2.0.0
-urllib3==1.25.3
-virtualenv==16.7.2
-wcwidth==0.1.7
-whitenoise==4.1.3
-zipp==0.5.2