diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eb3fbdf9a..e1ba9ef12 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@
 .coverage
 coverage.xml
 lightning_logs
+
+# data
+data/*
+**/data/*
+
+# checkpoints
+*.ckpt
\ No newline at end of file