diff --git a/jupyter_book/book_template/markdown-notebooks.md b/jupyter_book/book_template/markdown-notebooks.md
index 40e48920b0e3624d8430c7f12365d91429bc49b3..a057a320dcd595f3f0e0d250c3af4a5653596914 100644
--- a/jupyter_book/book_template/markdown-notebooks.md
+++ b/jupyter_book/book_template/markdown-notebooks.md
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 jupytext:
-  cell_metadata_filter: -all
   formats: md:myst
   text_representation:
     extension: .md