diff --git a/doc/how_to/get_started.rst b/doc/how_to/get_started.rst
index 625ebb52e4..93b2e3aed5 100644
--- a/doc/how_to/get_started.rst
+++ b/doc/how_to/get_started.rst
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ object to disk.
     BinaryFolderRecording: 32 channels - 32.0kHz - 1 segments - 320,000 samples - 10.00s
                            float32 dtype - 39.06 MiB
 
+To reload a preprocessed recording that was saved to disk, you can use ``load_extractor()`` function from the ``core`` module.
 
 Now you are ready to spike sort using the ``spikeinterface.sorters``
 module! Let’s first check which sorters are implemented and which are
diff --git a/examples/how_to/get_started.py b/examples/how_to/get_started.py
index e6599e5dfa..c45987505e 100644
--- a/examples/how_to/get_started.py
+++ b/examples/how_to/get_started.py
@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@
 print(recording_preprocessed)
 # -
 
+# To reload a preprocessed recording that was saved to disk, you can use `load_extractor()` function from the `core` module.
+#
 # Now you are ready to spike sort using the `spikeinterface.sorters` module!
 # Let's first check which sorters are implemented and which are installed