diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+*.db
+.DS_Store
+venv
+env
+application/__pycache__
+__pycache__
+blog_old.md
+node_modules
+.idea/*
+*.pyc
+tmp
+clinical-annotator-lookups/*
+static/dist
+tutorial/*.txt
+tutorial/*.json
+tutorial/attempts/*
+!tutorial/attempts/.gitkeep
+data/*.txt
+data/*.csv
+!data/example.txt
+!data/example.csv
+data/*.json
+!data/.gitkeep
+data/log/*
+!data/log/.gitkeep
+tutorial/users/*
+!tutorial/users/.gitkeep