diff --git a/home/config/default.nix b/home/config/default.nix
index fe5bb8b1..5197b5f7 100644
--- a/home/config/default.nix
+++ b/home/config/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {...}: {
-  # TODO: ipython config file
   xdg.configFile = {
+    "pypoetry/config.toml".source = ./poetry-config.toml;
+    "ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.json".source = ./ipython_config.json;
     "jupyter/jupyter_server_config.py".source = ./jupyter_server_config.py;
     "jupyter/jupyter_nbconvert_config.py".source =
       ./jupyter_nbconvert_config.py;
-    "pypoetry/config.toml".source = ./poetry-config.toml;
   };
 }
diff --git a/home/config/ipython_config.json b/home/config/ipython_config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44b67637
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/config/ipython_config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "Application": { "log_datefmt": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" },
+  "InteractiveShell": {
+    "colors": "Linux",
+    "color_info": true
+  },
+  "InteractiveShellApp": {
+    "exec_PYTHONSTARTUP": false,
+    "exec_lines": ["%load_ext autoreload", "%autoreload 2 --print"],
+    "gui": "tk",
+    "matplotlib": "tk",
+    "pylab": "tk"
+  },
+  "TerminalIPythonApp": { "gui": "tk", "display_banner": false },
+  "TerminalInteractiveShell": {
+    "editing_mode": "emacs",
+    "mouse_support": false,
+    "true_color": true
+  }
+}
diff --git a/home/config/ipython_config.py b/home/config/ipython_config.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b8802128..00000000
--- a/home/config/ipython_config.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-c = get_config()  # type: ignore
-c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_PYTHONSTARTUP = False
-c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = ["%load_ext autoreload", "%autoreload 2 --print"]
-c.InteractiveShellApp.gui = "tk"
-c.InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib = "tk"
-c.InteractiveShellApp.pylab = "tk"
-c.TerminalIPythonApp.gui = "tk"
-c.InteractiveShell.color_info = True
-c.InteractiveShell.colors = "Linux"
-c.TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode = "emacs"
-c.TerminalInteractiveShell.mouse_support = False
-c.TerminalInteractiveShell.true_color = False
-c.Application.log_datefmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"