amethyst/content/setup/ignore notes.md

---
title: "Ignoring Notes"
---

Edit `ignoreFiles` in `config.yaml` to include paths you'd like to exclude from being rendered.

```toml
...
ignoreFiles: [  
    "/content/templates/*",  
    "/content/private/*", 
    "<your path here>"
]
```

`ignoreFiles` supports the use of Regular Expressions (RegEx) so you can ignore patterns as well (e.g. ignoring all `.png`s by doing `\\.png$`).
To ignore a specific file, you can also add the tag `draft: true` to the frontmatter of a note.

```markdown
---
title: Some Private Note
draft: true
---
...
```

More details in [Hugo's documentation](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/#ignore-content-and-data-files-when-rendering).

### Global Ignore
However, just adding to the `ignoreFiles` will only prevent the page from being access through Amethyst. If you want to prevent the file from being pushed to GitHub (for example if you have a public repository), you need to also add the path to the `.gitignore` file at the root of the repository.
initial commit: combine book with quartz 2023-01-01 18:41:14 -05:00			`---`
			`title: "Ignoring Notes"`
			`---`

update documentation, improve color/font organization 2023-01-05 16:05:36 -05:00			Edit `ignoreFiles` in `config.yaml` to include paths you'd like to exclude from being rendered.
initial commit: combine book with quartz 2023-01-01 18:41:14 -05:00
			```toml
			`...`
update documentation, improve color/font organization 2023-01-05 16:05:36 -05:00			`ignoreFiles: [`
initial commit: combine book with quartz 2023-01-01 18:41:14 -05:00			`"/content/templates/*",`
			`"/content/private/*",`
			`"<your path here>"`
			`]`
			```

			`ignoreFiles` supports the use of Regular Expressions (RegEx) so you can ignore patterns as well (e.g. ignoring all `.png`s by doing `\\.png$`).
			To ignore a specific file, you can also add the tag `draft: true` to the frontmatter of a note.

			```markdown
			`---`
			`title: Some Private Note`
			`draft: true`
			`---`
			`...`
			```

			`More details in [Hugo's documentation](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/#ignore-content-and-data-files-when-rendering).`

			`### Global Ignore`
update documentation, improve color/font organization 2023-01-05 16:05:36 -05:00			However, just adding to the `ignoreFiles` will only prevent the page from being access through Amethyst. If you want to prevent the file from being pushed to GitHub (for example if you have a public repository), you need to also add the path to the `.gitignore` file at the root of the repository.