diff --git a/.spacemacs b/.spacemacs
index 98d537d067d927298c4b8fb33ad5033758598f4c..ec7aa7319d7d616373da4c0fbc87bf3a66ecbfd3 100644
--- a/.spacemacs
+++ b/.spacemacs
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ before packages are loaded."
 
 
 ;; recursively add agenda files, this is needed because journal files dnt have expected ".org" extension
-(setq org-agenda-file-regexp "\\`[^.].*\\.org'\\|[0-9]+$")
+(setq org-agenda-file-regexp "^[^.#].*\\.org\\|^[^.#][0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*$")
 (setq org-agenda-files '("~/org/" "~/org/journal/" "~/org/brain/"))
 ;(setq org-agenda-files (append (directory-files-recursively "~/org" "^[^.#].*\\.org")))
 ;(setq org-agenda-files (append (directory-files-recursively "~/org/journal" "^[^.#][0-9]*-[0-9]*-[0-9]*$")))