diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 68bc17f9..47762394 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -157,4 +157,10 @@ cython_debug/
 #  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
-#.idea/
+# The ".idea" folder can generally be ignored directly.
+.idea/
+
+# custom .gitignore
+user.config
+saves/
+cache/