Creating a Dashboard View of Notes

I want to create a quick view of Notes. 

The Notes entity is in Advanced Find but for some reason is not available for selection as an entity in Dashboards.  I know I can create a report to mimic the Notes Advanced Find and display that in Dashboards but it is a clunky way of doing it and still involves the very slow process of running the report.

CRM 2013 on premeses.

Thanks.