diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d64299f..d91729e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # StatWrap Changelog
 
+## 0.0.19 - November 26, 2025
+
+### Change Summary
+
+- Improve search by excluding user folders from R, RStudio, Python, Jupyter, etc. from indexing.
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/StatTag/StatWrap/compare/0.0.18...0.0.19
+
 ## 0.0.18 - November 20, 2025
 
 ### Change Summary
diff --git a/app/constants/search-config.js b/app/constants/search-config.js
index af7c380..fa102cc 100644
--- a/app/constants/search-config.js
+++ b/app/constants/search-config.js
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@ module.exports = {
   // File indexing settings
   indexing: {
     maxFileSize: 0.1 * 1024 * 1024,
+    excludedDirectories: ['node_modules', '.git', '.statwrap',
+      // Python
+      '__pycache__', '.venv', 'venv', '.pytest_cache', '.pybuilder', '.ipynb_checkpoints',, '__pypackages__',
+      // R and RStudio
+      '.Rproj.user'
+    ],
+
+    excludedFiles: [
+      // R and RStudio
+      '.Rhistory', '.Rapp.history',
+      // Mac
+      '.DS_Store'
+    ]
   },
 
   // Search settings
diff --git a/app/containers/AboutPage/AboutPage.js b/app/containers/AboutPage/AboutPage.js
index 6660bdd..f9cfabf 100644
--- a/app/containers/AboutPage/AboutPage.js
+++ b/app/containers/AboutPage/AboutPage.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export default class AboutPage extends Component {
   render() {
     return (
       <div className={styles.container} data-tid="container">
-        <h1>StatWrap v0.18</h1>
+        <h1>StatWrap v0.19</h1>
         <div className={styles.copyright}>
           (c) 2021-2025 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
         </div>
diff --git a/app/package-lock.json b/app/package-lock.json
index 15a0568..298397e 100644
--- a/app/package-lock.json
+++ b/app/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "statwrap",
-  "version": "0.0.18",
+  "version": "0.0.19",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "statwrap",
-      "version": "0.0.18",
+      "version": "0.0.19",
       "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
diff --git a/app/package.json b/app/package.json
index 7bc1453..d6dd4aa 100644
--- a/app/package.json
+++ b/app/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "statwrap",
   "productName": "StatWrap",
-  "version": "0.0.18",
+  "version": "0.0.19",
   "description": "Reproducible research made easy",
   "main": "./main.prod.js",
   "author": {
diff --git a/app/services/SearchService.js b/app/services/SearchService.js
index 3da538c..9b19571 100644
--- a/app/services/SearchService.js
+++ b/app/services/SearchService.js
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import Messages from '../constants/messages';
 import Constants from '../constants/constants';
 
 const SEARCH_CONFIG_VERSION = '1.0';
-const EXCLUDED_DIRS = ['node_modules', '.git', '.statwrap', '__pycache__', '.venv', 'venv'];
 
 class SearchService {
   constructor() {
@@ -822,12 +821,18 @@ class SearchService {
             const stats = fs.statSync(fullPath);
 
             if (stats.isDirectory()) {
-              if (!EXCLUDED_DIRS.includes(item)) {
+              // Don't process ignored directories
+              if (!SearchConfig?.indexing?.excludedDirectories.includes(item)) {
                 await scanDirectory(fullPath);
               }
             } else if (stats.isFile()) {
               totalFiles++;
 
+              // Skip any ignored files
+              if (SearchConfig?.indexing?.excludedFiles.includes(item)) {
+                continue;
+              }
+
               if (stats.size > fileSizeLimit) {
                 skippedLargeFiles++;
                 continue;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c713f75..d20fb81 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "statwrap",
   "productName": "StatWrap",
-  "version": "0.0.18",
+  "version": "0.0.19",
   "description": "Reproducible research made easy",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "concurrently \"yarn build-main\" \"yarn build-renderer\" \"yarn build-worker\" \"yarn build-preload\"",