Hi Jay, I keep all my notes out of the agenda, because it slows down building the agenda (at least with previous versions of org, it might have improved recently), which I do quite often.
Instead I keep all those notes files in the variable org-agenda-text-search-extra-files, so that I am able to search on them and add them as well to the org-refile-targets. If you keep all your notes in the directory ~/org/notes, then set: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-agenda-text-search-extra-files (cddr (directory-files "~/org/notes" t nil))) (setq org-refile-targets (list '(org-agenda-files . (:maxlevel . 1)) '(org-agenda-text-search-extra-files . (:maxlevel . 1)) '(nil . (:maxlevel . 5)))) #+END_SRC Best, Jorge.