diff --git a/docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/pinecone.ipynb b/docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/pinecone.ipynb
index eaa35b47..9fd492b1 100644
--- a/docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/pinecone.ipynb
+++ b/docs/modules/indexes/vectorstores/examples/pinecone.ipynb
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
     "\n",
     "docsearch = Pinecone.from_documents(docs, embeddings, index_name=index_name)\n",
     "\n",
+    "# if you already have an index, you can load it like this\n",
+    "# docsearch = Pinecone.from_existing_index(index_name, embeddings)\n",
+    "\n",
     "query = \"What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson\"\n",
     "docs = docsearch.similarity_search(query)"
    ]