diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8f2f30a..0c54eb5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
 #### Configuration format
+
 This is a group of NixOS modules that control user and system configuration for
 a single-user machine. In order to avoid confusion with other modules, all
 user-facing options that I provide will be under the namespace `minion.` and all
 internal options that I provide will be under the namespace `internal.`
 
+#### Directory usages
+
+| Directory   | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
+| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `modules`   | modules, used to provide user-facing options and configuration                                                                                                                       |
+| `internal`  | internal modules, used to provide configuration-agnostic options to user-facing modules. These should do nothing unless they are triggered by a user-facing module setting an option |
+| `utils`     | internal utilities for writing these modules; intended to be imported by nix files in here, and probably nothing else. These may be refactored into another repo at some point       |
+| `overlays`  | package overlays, each in files named with the package they are intended to overlay                                                                                                  |
+| `patches`   | patch files, each in a directory named with the package that they are intended to patch                                                                                              |
+| `packages`  | package expressions, each named with the package they wish to occupy                                                                                                                 |
+| `switching` | a program for switching on and off options, as well as rebuilding the configuration. Currently A WIP                                                                                 |
+
+##### Modules
+
 All files directly under `/modules/` will be `.nix` modules, and related files
 (such as assets) may be contained in `/modules/name/` (where `name` is the name
 of the module with the `.nix` extension omitted). Similarly, any options the
@@ -13,24 +28,22 @@
 directory. Some modules with stricter layouts may decide to keep a README in
 their assets directory to ensure a standard is kept.
 
-These are *not* standard NixOS modules, in that they can have some extra
+These are _not_ standard NixOS modules, in that they can have some extra
 properties outside of the traditional `imports`, `options`, and `config`, and
-these properties *will not be* treated as config. These properties are described
+these properties _will not be_ treated as config. These properties are described
 below.
 
-##### Additional options
-| Options | Type | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `home` | home-manager configuration | configuration that will be used for the
-home-manager user; will also be passed as the variable `home` to your modules | 
+###### Additional properties
 
-#### Special directories
+| Options | Type                       | Description                                                                                                           |
+| ------- | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `home`  | home-manager configuration | configuration that will be used for the home-manager user; will also be passed as the variable `home` to your modules |
 
-
-#### Licensing Unless otherwise specified, all files in this repo while this
-message is in the readme were written or otherwise created by me, Skyler Grey,
-and are released under [GNUAGPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html).
-A full copy of this license may be found at the provided URL or in [the license
+#### Licensing
+Unless otherwise specified, all files in this repo while this message is in the
+readme were written or otherwise created by me, Skyler Grey, and are released
+under [GNUAGPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). A full copy of
+this license may be found at the provided URL or in [the license
 file](./LICENSE).
 
 Despite the licensing, only the files in this repo are licensed. This config
diff --git a/utils/interpretNonstandardModule.nix b/utils/interpretNonstandardModule.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..533cf6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/interpretNonstandardModule.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# As our modules have nonstandard properties, we need to have some way of
+# properly intepreting them
+# This function takes a list of modules, as well as arguments to import them
+# with, and returns a list of modules, each with the standard NixOS module
+# properties as well as with custom properties as described in /README.md
+modules: args: let
+  resolver = module: let
+    importedModule =
+      if builtins.typeOf module == "path"
+      then import module
+      else module;
+    resolvedModule =
+      if builtins.typeOf importedModule == "lambda"
+      then
+        resolvedModule
+        args
+      else resolvedModule;
+  in {
+    home = module.home or {};
+    module = {
+        module.config or {};
+        module.imports or {};
+        module.options or {};
+    };
+  };
+in (
+  if modules.typeOf == "list"
+  then builtins.map resolver modules
+  else (resolver modules)
+)