Greetings! I've discovered that org-capture-refile's documentation states that org-capture-refile finalizes the buffer first, and then refiles the entry. This is incorrect, the implementation of org-capture-refile first refiles the entry and then calls org-capture-finalize. While this is a small inconsistency, it leads to errors with org-finalize: The cursor possition during finalization is that of the entry before the refile, while normally, the cursor is positioned at the start of the newly inserted entry when org-capture-finalize is called. This leads to superfluous newlines, and possibly other problems, such as timestamps and checkboxes not being updated. I've fixed this bug for me by reversing the order of finalization and refiling, as stated in the documentation. I've attached a patch to do this, but I'm not entirely sure about the side effects caused by the patch. The test suite does pass though. If someone could weigh in on this, I'd be grateful! Regards, Jan Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.6) of 2015-09-22 on bean Package: Org-mode version 8.3.1 (8.3.1-129-ga7c8d2-elpaplus @ /home/jeeger/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20150921/)