diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0992e1f..b319c94 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,3 +20,23 @@
 ```
 
  The revolution will be televised.
+
+
+## 📺 About
+`Television` is a blazingly fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI written in Rust. It is inspired by the neovim `Telescope` plugin and the `fzf` command line tool. It is designed to be fast, efficient, easy to use and easily extensible. It is built on top of `tokio`, `ratatui` and the `nucleo` matcher which is used in the `helix` editor.
+
+## 📺 Design
+`Television`'s design is based on the concept of `Channels`. A `Channel` is a source of data that can be used for fuzzy
+finding. A `Channel` can be anything from a file system directory, a git repository, a list of strings, a list of
+numbers, etc. `Television` provides a set of built-in `Channels` that can be used out of the box. However, `Television`
+is designed to be easily extensible and allows users to define their own custom `Channels` by implementing a simple
+trait.
+
+## Built-in Channels
+- `Files`: search through files in a directory tree.
+- `Text`: search through textual content in a directory tree.
+- `GitRepos`: search through git repositories anywhere on the file system.
+- `Env`: search through environment variables and their values.
+- `Alias`: search through shell aliases and their values.
+- `Stdin`: search through lines of text from stdin.
+
diff --git a/crates/television/utils/files.rs b/crates/television/utils/files.rs
index 242de65..ce43eff 100644
--- a/crates/television/utils/files.rs
+++ b/crates/television/utils/files.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use std::{collections::HashSet, path::PathBuf};
 use ignore::{overrides::Override, types::TypesBuilder, WalkBuilder};
 use infer::Infer;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
+use tracing::debug;
 
 use crate::config::default_num_threads;
 
@@ -26,9 +27,14 @@ pub fn walk_builder(
 
     // ignore paths
     if let Some(paths) = ignore_paths {
-        for path in paths {
-            builder.add_ignore(path);
-        }
+        builder.filter_entry(move |e| {
+            let path = e.path();
+            if paths.iter().any(|p| path.starts_with(p)) {
+                debug!("Ignoring path: {:?}", path);
+                return false;
+            }
+            true
+        });
     }
 
     builder.threads(n_threads);