Headlines

Headlines define the structure of an outline tree. The headlines in Org start on the left margin^[1] with one or more stars followed by a space. For example:

* First (top) level headline
** Second level
*** Third level
    some text
*** Third level
    more text
* Another first (top) level headline

Note that a headline named after org-footnote-section, which defaults to ‘Footnotes’, is considered as special. A subtree with this headline will be silently ignored by exporting functions.

Some people find the many stars too noisy and would prefer an outline that has whitespace followed by a single star as headline starters. See Miscellaneous for a setup to realize this.

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1. See the variable org-special-ctrl-a/e to configure special behavior of C-a and C-e in headlines. ↩︎