diff --git a/autoload/startify.vim b/autoload/startify.vim
index c780de4..238a5e5 100644
--- a/autoload/startify.vim
+++ b/autoload/startify.vim
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ function! s:show_dir(cnt) abort
   endif
   for fname in split(glob('.\=*'))
     if isdirectory(fname)
+          \ || (exists('g:startify_skiplist') && s:is_in_skiplist(resolve(fnamemodify(fname, ':p'))))
       continue
     endif
     call add(files, [getftime(fname), fname])
diff --git a/doc/startify.txt b/doc/startify.txt
index 224236b..96dc5be 100644
--- a/doc/startify.txt
+++ b/doc/startify.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Example: let g:startify_bookmarks = [ '~/.vimrc' ]
 
     let g:startify_skiplist = []
 
-A list of Vim regular expressions to filter recently used files.
+A list of Vim regular expressions to filter recently used files and files in
+the current directory.
 
 Example: let g:startify_skiplist = [
            \ 'COMMIT_EDITMSG',