diff --git a/axum/src/docs/error_handling.md b/axum/src/docs/error_handling.md
index 45c768c69a..d1b172b974 100644
--- a/axum/src/docs/error_handling.md
+++ b/axum/src/docs/error_handling.md
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ It doesn't matter whether you return `Err(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND)` or
 `Err(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)`. These are not considered errors in
 axum.
 
+Instead of a direct `StatusCode`, it makes sense to use intermediate error type
+that can ultimately be converted to `Reponse`. This allows using `?` operator
+in handlers. See those examples:
+
+* [`anyhow-error-response`][anyhow] for generic boxed errors
+* [`error-handling-and-dependency-injection`][ehdi] for application-specific detailed errors
+
+[anyhow]:https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/anyhow-error-response/src/main.rs
+[ehdi]:https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/error-handling-and-dependency-injection/src/main.rs
+
 This also applies to extractors. If an extractor doesn't match the request the
 request will be rejected and a response will be returned without calling your
 handler. See [`extract`](crate::extract) to learn more about handling extractor
diff --git a/axum/src/handler/mod.rs b/axum/src/handler/mod.rs
index 338eea623c..d8546a1b71 100644
--- a/axum/src/handler/mod.rs
+++ b/axum/src/handler/mod.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@
 //! }
 //! ```
 //!
+//! Instead of a direct `StatusCode`, it makes sense to use intermediate error type
+//! that can ultimately be converted to `Reponse`. This allows using `?` operator
+//! in handlers. See those examples:
+//!
+//! * [`anyhow-error-response`][anyhow] for generic boxed errors
+//! * [`error-handling-and-dependency-injection`][ehdi] for application-specific detailed errors
+//!
+//! [anyhow]:https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/anyhow-error-response/src/main.rs
+//! [ehdi]:https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/examples/error-handling-and-dependency-injection/src/main.rs
+//!
 #![doc = include_str!("../docs/debugging_handler_type_errors.md")]
 
 #[cfg(feature = "tokio")]