diff --git a/content/docs/command-reference/exp/apply.md b/content/docs/command-reference/exp/apply.md
index b7d11f77871..b0220f32a57 100644
--- a/content/docs/command-reference/exp/apply.md
+++ b/content/docs/command-reference/exp/apply.md
@@ -39,12 +39,13 @@ the current Git commit.
 - `-v`, `--verbose` - displays detailed tracing information from executing the
   `dvc pull` command.
 
-## Example: Apply and promote an experiment
+## Example: Make an experiment persistent
 
 > This example is based on our
 > [Get Started](/doc/tutorials/get-started/experiments), where you can find the
-> actual source code. Let's say we have run 3 experiments in our project
-> workspace:
+> actual source code.
+
+Let's say we have run 3 experiments in our project:
 
 ```dvc
 $ dvc exp show --include-params=featurize
@@ -59,50 +60,37 @@ $ dvc exp show --include-params=featurize
 └───────────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
 ```
 
-We now wish to commit the results of experiment `1dad0d2` into our project.
+Since `exp-e6c97` has the best `auc`, we may want to commit it into our project
+(this is what we call to "make it persistent"):
 
 ```dvc
 $ dvc exp apply exp-1dad0
-Changes for experiment 'exp-1dad0' have been applied to your current workspace.
+Changes for experiment 'exp-1dad0' have been applied...
 ```
 
-We can inspect these changes with Git:
+We can inspect what changed in the workspace with Git,
 
 ```dvc
 $ git status
 On branch master
-Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
 Changes not staged for commit:
         modified:   dvc.lock
         modified:   params.yaml
-        modified:   prc.json
         modified:   scores.json
-$ git diff params.yaml scores.json
-diff --git a/params.yaml b/params.yaml
-index 4c4d898..faf781a 100644
---- a/params.yaml
-+++ b/params.yaml
+$ git diff params.yaml
+```
+
+```git
 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ prepare:
-   seed: 20170428
  featurize:
--  max_features: 1500
-+  max_features: 2000
+-  max_features: 2000
++  max_features: 1500
    ngrams: 2
- train:
-diff --git a/scores.json b/scores.json
-index c995f24..c640c4e 100644
---- a/scores.json
-+++ b/scores.json
-@@ -1 +1 @@
--{"auc": 0.6131382960762474}
-\ No newline at end of file
-+{"auc": 0.5775633054725381}
-\ No newline at end of file
 ```
 
 and with DVC:
 
-```
+```dvc
 $ dvc status
 Data and pipelines are up to date.
 $ dvc diff
@@ -111,21 +99,17 @@ Modified:
     data/features/test.pkl
     data/features/train.pkl
     model.pkl
-    prc.json
-    scores.json
-files summary: 0 added, 0 deleted, 5 modified, 0 not in cache
+files summary: 0 added, 0 deleted, 3 modified, 0 not in cache
 ```
 
-To promote this experiment we simply `git add` and `git commit` the changes:
+To finish making this experiment persistent, we commit the changes to the repo:
 
 ```dvc
 $ git add .
-$ git commit -m "promote experiment exp-1dad0"
-[master 0412386] promote experiment exp-1dad0
+$ git commit -m "persist exp-1dad0"
 ```
 
-Finally, we can now see that the promoted experiment is the new tip of our
-master branch:
+We can now see that the experiment is the new tip of our master branch:
 
 ```dvc
 $ dvc exp show --include-params=featurize
@@ -136,3 +120,6 @@ $ dvc exp show --include-params=featurize
 │ master     │ 04:31 PM │ 0.57756 │ 2000                   │ 2                │
 └────────────┴──────────┴─────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
 ```
+
+Note that all the other experiments are based on a previous commit, so
+`dvc exp show` won't display them by default (but they're still saved).