diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 9d869e20..dac2410a 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 # Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
 * text=auto
-*.ipynb linguist-vendored
\ No newline at end of file
+
+# ignore jupyter notebooks in postprocessing in the language bar on github
+notebooks/** linguist-vendored
\ No newline at end of file