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 ## Description
-A collection of personal gitignore files for various languages.
+A collection of personal gitignore files for various languages. Allows standardized ignores for my own personal
+workflows.
 
 Created because it gets difficult to keep track of which is "the newest version" when I have so many different projects.
 
 
 ## References
-For general documentation about gitignore files, see <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>.
+* For general documentation about gitignore files, see <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>.
+* For examples of potentially useful gitignore values in various languages, see <https://www.gitignore.io>.
+* There is also a much larger, community-accepted gitignore collection at <https://github.com/github/gitignore>.
 
 
-## Notes
-For reference, there is a much larger, community-accepted gitignore collection at <https://github.com/github/gitignore>.
-
-I still have this personal one anyways, because I find it more useful to know exactly what I'm ignoring from projects,
-and be able to personally document values in a way such that I'll understand it on later reference.
+I still have these personal ignores anyways, because I find it more useful to know exactly what I'm ignoring from
+projects, and be able to personally document values in a way such that I'll understand it on later reference.