diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3db3e67aa1c07f32093f54c5c73f713bdd4f2d06..ac8927249523ab9c773fa31b5516f549e2314174 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,34 +1,6 @@
-# Conda environment
-*-env
-
-# Xaringan-related files
-**/*_files
-
-# Lecture-related files
-lectures/**/*.html
-# lectures/**/*.pdf
-lectures/*/*/remark-css-0.0.1/default.css
-lectures/*/*/header-attrs-2.3/header-attrs.js
+# temp file for docx 
+**/~*
 
 # Various
-.snakemake
 .DS_Store
 
-# Output files from running tutorials
-jupyter/report.html
-jupyter/summary.txt
-jupyter/.ipynb_checkpoints
-**/data
-**/intermediate
-**/results
-**/work
-rmarkdown/.R*
-rmarkdown/*html
-rmarkdown/*Rproj
-snakemake/*txt
-snakemake/*png
-snakemake/*tsv
-.Rproj.user
-
-#compiled site
-site