diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..b5ffacd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/osx,windows
+
+### OSX ###
+.DS_Store
+.AppleDouble
+.LSOverride
+
+# Icon must end with two \r
+Icon
+
+
+# Thumbnails
+._*
+
+# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
+.DocumentRevisions-V100
+.fseventsd
+.Spotlight-V100
+.TemporaryItems
+.Trashes
+.VolumeIcon.icns
+
+# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
+.AppleDB
+.AppleDesktop
+Network Trash Folder
+Temporary Items
+.apdisk
+
+
+### Windows ###
+# Windows image file caches
+Thumbs.db
+ehthumbs.db
+
+# Folder config file
+Desktop.ini
+
+# Recycle Bin used on file shares
+$RECYCLE.BIN/
+
+# Windows Installer files
+*.cab
+*.msi
+*.msm
+*.msp
+
+# Windows shortcuts
+*.lnk
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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index 0000000..154e4dc
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+pyGitBook
+========
+
+gitBookLog is a simple and slightly hackish program that can be used to turn a dump from git-log into a nice logbook
+
+## Usage
+Requirements: Python3
+
+1. cd into your repository folder inside a terminal 
+2. Run `git log --pretty="format:[START commit][author=%an][time=%at][message=%s][hash=%H]" --shortstat > git-data.txt` for creating a git-data.txt file with your commit history 
+3. Put your created `git-data.txt` file into the repository folder and run `python main.py` inside of it 
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
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index 8ef07e1..0000000
--- a/README.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-gitBookLog is a simple and slightly hackish program that can be used to turn a dump from git-log into a nice logbook
-
-To use the program simply run the snippet in the comment at the top of main.py
-
-Move the file created (probably) git-data.txt into the same directory and run main.py
-
-Thats about it hopefully i will get around to improving the program and writing a more compleate README some time in the future
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 758e210..b40ba0f 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Use this is generate log data for the default template
 #git log --pretty="format:[START commit][author=%an][time=%at][message=%s][hash=%H]" --shortstat > git-data.txt
 
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ def get_css(template): ## Makes a big blob of CSS so you dont need to worry abou
         "style":get_css(TEMPLATE_DIR),
         "commits":commits}
 
-f = open(HTMLFILE,"w")
+f = open(HTMLFILE,"w", encoding="utf-8")
 f.write(template.render(data))
 f.close()
 
-print "All done you now have a nice logbook at:", HTMLFILE
+print ("All done you now have a nice logbook at:", HTMLFILE)