diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a7ef66331c4ee4965eb772d33ef61d5f82eeb4e4..efcb217e9853c39e614cdc4a6ed12b2b7cddec4b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ ${SAGETEXSCRIPT}: ${TEXFILES} filtered_sage.txt
 filtered_sage.txt: ${MAINTEXFILE} filter_sage.sed
 	./filter_sage.sed ${MAINTEXFILE} > $@
 
-.PHONY: clean
+.PHONY: clean nosage
 clean:
 	rm -rf **/__pycache__
 	latexmk -C
 	git clean -xf || echo no git repo to use for cleaning
 
+nosage:
+	latexmk