diff --git a/src/indexing.jl b/src/indexing.jl
index 305481e..9f40765 100644
--- a/src/indexing.jl
+++ b/src/indexing.jl
@@ -145,3 +145,14 @@ function index(indexer::Indexer)
     # check if all relevant files are saved
     _check_all_files_are_saved(indexer.config.index_path)
 end
+
+function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/plain", indexer::Indexer)
+    print(io, "ColBERT Indexer:\n")
+    print(io, "  collection size: $(length(indexer.collection)) documents\n")
+    print(io, "  checkpoint: $(indexer.config.checkpoint)\n")
+    collection_path = indexer.config.collection
+    if collection_path isa String && !isempty(collection_path)
+        print(io, "  collection path: $(collection_path)\n")
+    end
+    print(io, "  index path: $(indexer.config.index_path)\n")
+end
diff --git a/src/infra/config.jl b/src/infra/config.jl
index 06fbc5d..d8cb243 100644
--- a/src/infra/config.jl
+++ b/src/infra/config.jl
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Base.@kwdef struct ColBERTConfig
     query_token::String = "[Q]"
     doc_token::String = "[D]"
 
-    # resource settings 
+    # resource settings
     checkpoint::String = "colbert-ir/colbertv2.0"
     collection::Union{String, Vector{String}} = ""
 
@@ -88,3 +88,31 @@ Base.@kwdef struct ColBERTConfig
     nprobe::Int = 2
     ncandidates::Int = 8192
 end
+
+function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/plain", config::ColBERTConfig)
+    print(io, "ColBERTConfig:\n")
+    print(io, "  model:\n")
+    print(io, "    checkpoint: $(config.checkpoint)\n")
+    print(io, "    dim: $(config.dim)\n")
+    print(io, "  documents:\n")
+    print(io,
+        "    collection: $(config.collection isa String ? config.collection : "$(length(config.collection)) documents")\n")
+    print(io, "    max length: $(config.doc_maxlen)\n")
+    print(io, "    mask punctuation: $(config.mask_punctuation)\n")
+    print(io, "  queries:\n")
+    print(io, "    max length: $(config.query_maxlen)\n")
+    print(io, "    attend to mask: $(config.attend_to_mask_tokens)\n")
+    print(io, "  indexing:\n")
+    print(io, "    path: $(config.index_path)\n")
+    print(io, "    batch size: $(config.index_bsize)\n")
+    print(io, "    chunk size: $(config.chunksize)\n")
+    print(io, "    compression bits: $(config.nbits)\n")
+    print(io, "    kmeans iterations: $(config.kmeans_niters)\n")
+    print(io, "  search:\n")
+    print(io, "    nprobe: $(config.nprobe)\n")
+    print(io, "    ncandidates: $(config.ncandidates)\n")
+    print(io, "  hardware:\n")
+    print(io, "    gpu: $(config.use_gpu)\n")
+    print(io, "    rank: $(config.rank)\n")
+    print(io, "    nranks: $(config.nranks)\n")
+end
diff --git a/src/searching.jl b/src/searching.jl
index e617931..4af0e6a 100644
--- a/src/searching.jl
+++ b/src/searching.jl
@@ -126,3 +126,12 @@ function search(searcher::Searcher, query::String, k::Int)
     pids, scores = pids[indices], scores[indices]
     pids[1:k], scores[1:k]
 end
+
+function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/plain", searcher::Searcher)
+    print(io, "ColBERT Searcher:\n")
+    print(io, "  checkpoint: $(searcher.config.checkpoint)\n")
+    print(io, "  index path: $(searcher.config.index_path)\n")
+    print(io, "  embeddings:\n")
+    print(io, "    total: $(sum(searcher.doclens))\n")
+    print(io, "    centroids: $(size(searcher.centroids,2))\n")
+end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index c6d6df1..72c4ec5 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const FLOAT_TYPES = [Float16, Float32, Float64]
 include("indexing/codecs/residual.jl")
 include("indexing/collection_indexer.jl")
 
-# modelling operations 
+# modelling operations
 include("modelling/tokenization/tokenizer_utils.jl")
 include("modelling/embedding_utils.jl")
 
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ include("modelling/embedding_utils.jl")
 include("searching.jl")
 include("search/ranking.jl")
 
+# show operations
+include("show_methods.jl")
+
 # utils
 include("utils.jl")
 
diff --git a/test/show_methods.jl b/test/show_methods.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05c0fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/show_methods.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+@testset "show methods" begin
+    mktempdir() do dir
+        config = ColBERTConfig(
+            checkpoint = "dummy-checkpoint",
+            index_path = dir,
+            collection = ["doc1", "doc2"]
+        )
+
+        str = sprint(show, MIME("text/plain"), config)
+        @test occursin("    checkpoint: dummy-checkpoint", str)
+        @test occursin("    path: $dir", str)
+        @test occursin("    collection: 2 documents", str)
+    end
+end