diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 3f0868b..dc95e90 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -4020,11 +4020,10 @@ means of the non-interactive function ~denote-sort-files~.
 
 [ This is part of {{{development-version}}}. The specifics may change. ]
 
-#+findex: denote-sort-dired-focus
 #+findex: denote-dired-focus
-The command ~denote-dired-focus~ (alias ~denote-sort-dired-focus~)
-gives users the option to further filter an existing Dired buffer that
-was produced by the ~denote-dired~ command ([[#h:9fe01e63-f34f-4479-8713-f162a5ca865e][Display filtered and sorted files with ~denote-sort-dired~ or ~denote-dired~]]).
+The command ~denote-dired-focus~ gives users the option to further
+filter an existing Dired buffer that was produced by the
+~denote-dired~ command ([[#h:9fe01e63-f34f-4479-8713-f162a5ca865e][Display filtered and sorted files with ~denote-sort-dired~ or ~denote-dired~]]).
 
 Call ~denote-dired-focus~ from inside such a Dired buffer to further
 limit its contents to files matching the given regular expression or
diff --git a/denote.el b/denote.el
index 625d04b..8c6329a 100644
--- a/denote.el
+++ b/denote.el
@@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ and (iv) a string, respectively."
 (defalias 'denote-dired 'denote-sort-dired
   "Alias for `denote-sort-dired' command.")
 
-(defun denote-sort-dired-focus (regexp &optional exclude-match)
+(defun denote-dired-focus (regexp &optional exclude-match)
   "Filter the current `denote-dired' buffer to include only files matching REGEXP.
 With optional EXCLUDE-MATCH as a prefix argument remove the files
 matching REGEXP from the buffer.
@@ -2072,9 +2072,6 @@ buffer's file list to operate only on those files."
           (denote-sort-dired regexp component reverse-sort exclude-regexp files)))
     (user-error "No last `denote-sort-dired' results to focus on")))
 
-(defalias 'denote-dired-focus 'denote-sort-dired-focus
-  "Alias for `denote-sort-dired-focus'.")
-
 ;;;; Keywords
 
 (defun denote-extract-keywords-from-path (path)