diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 00f9864..29cb7e1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 # Don't add production config.toml to the repo
 config.toml
-# Ignore markov data (default path)
-data/markov/markov.db
-
-# Pickle files
-*.pkl
 
 ### Python ###
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
diff --git a/data/markov/.gitignore b/data/markov/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69e312e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/markov/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Databases
+*.db
diff --git a/data/wordbot/.gitignore b/data/wordbot/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a141ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/wordbot/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Database
+*.db