diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b81f7a..f2b12cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Procedure when bumping the version number:
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+- Config file
+
 ## v0.3.0 - 2022-08-22
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4a7be31..33ea96f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -187,11 +187,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "parking_lot",
  "rusqlite",
+ "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "time",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
+ "toml",
  "toss",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "unicode-width",
@@ -1173,6 +1175,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "webpki",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "toml"
+version = "0.5.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8d82e1a7758622a465f8cee077614c73484dac5b836c02ff6a40d5d1010324d7"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toss"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index aebfd23..4347a44 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ edit = "0.1.4"
 log = { version = "0.4.17", features = ["std"] }
 parking_lot = "0.12.1"
 rusqlite = { version = "0.28.0", features = ["bundled", "time"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0.144", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.85"
 thiserror = "1.0.32"
 tokio = { version = "1.20.1", features = ["full"] }
+toml = "0.5.9"
 unicode-segmentation = "1.9.0"
 unicode-width = "0.1.9"
 
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c973a3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+use std::fs;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use serde::Deserialize;
+
+use crate::macros::ok_or_return;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize)]
+pub struct Config {}
+
+impl Config {
+    pub fn load(path: &Path) -> Self {
+        let content = ok_or_return!(fs::read_to_string(path), Self::default());
+        ok_or_return!(toml::from_str(&content), Self::default())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 0d8115a..2f341dc 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 // TODO Enable warn(unreachable_pub)?
 // TODO Clean up use and manipulation of toss Pos and Size
 
+mod config;
 mod euph;
 mod export;
 mod logger;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ use toss::terminal::Terminal;
 use ui::Ui;
 use vault::Vault;
 
+use crate::config::Config;
 use crate::logger::Logger;
 
 #[derive(Debug, clap::Subcommand)]
@@ -58,6 +60,10 @@ impl Default for Command {
 #[derive(Debug, clap::Parser)]
 #[clap(version)]
 struct Args {
+    /// Path to the config file.
+    #[clap(long, short)]
+    config: Option<PathBuf>,
+
     /// Path to a directory for cove to store its data in.
     #[clap(long, short)]
     data_dir: Option<PathBuf>,
@@ -75,25 +81,24 @@ struct Args {
     command: Option<Command>,
 }
 
-fn data_dir(args_data_dir: Option<PathBuf>) -> PathBuf {
-    if let Some(data_dir) = args_data_dir {
-        data_dir
-    } else {
-        let dirs =
-            ProjectDirs::from("de", "plugh", "cove").expect("unable to determine directories");
-        dirs.data_dir().to_path_buf()
-    }
-}
-
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let args = Args::parse();
+    let dirs = ProjectDirs::from("de", "plugh", "cove").expect("unable to determine directories");
+
+    let config_path = args
+        .config
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| dirs.config_dir().join("config.toml"));
+    println!("Config file: {}", config_path.to_string_lossy());
+    let config = Config::load(&config_path);
 
     let vault = if args.ephemeral {
         vault::launch_in_memory()?
     } else {
-        let data_dir = data_dir(args.data_dir);
-        println!("Data dir: {}", data_dir.to_string_lossy());
+        let data_dir = args
+            .data_dir
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| dirs.data_dir().to_path_buf());
+        println!("Data dir:    {}", data_dir.to_string_lossy());
         vault::launch(&data_dir.join("vault.db"))?
     };