Headlines

Visibility cycling

TAB

Cycle subtree folded -> children -> subtree

S-TAB, C-u TAB

Cycle buffer

C-u C-u C-u TAB

Expand all

#+STARTUP: `overview`|`content`|`showall`

Startup options

Motion

C-c C-n

Next heading

C-C C-p

Previous heading

C-c C-f

Next heading, same level

C-c C-b

Previous heading, same level

C-c C-u

Up to parent

Structural editing

M-RET

Insert heading

M-S-RET

Insert TODO heading

TAB

Cycles through heading depths (when empty entry)

M-left/right

Increase/decrease heading depth

M-S-left/right

Increase/decrease subtree depth

M-S-up/down

Move subtree up/down

C-c C-c

Add tag to heading

Change view

C-x n s

Narrow buffer to subtree

C-x n w

Widen narrowed buffer

C-c /

Create a sparse tree view

C-c / r

Regex base sparse tree view

Plain lists

M-RET

Insert item

M-S-RET

Insert checkbox item

TAB

Cycle through list depths

C-c -

Cycle through list types

M-left/right

Increase/decrease item depth

M-S-left/right

Increase/decrease sub-list depth

M-S-up/down

Move sublist up/down

C-c C-c

Check checkbox item

Managing footnotes

C-c C-x f

Insert/follow footnote

C-c C-c

Jump to definition/reference

Tables

C-c |

Create table

Motion

TAB

Next field

S-TAB

Previous field

C-c C-c

Re-align

RET

Next row

Column & row editing

M-left/right

Move column left/right

M-S-left

Delete current column

M-S-right

Insert empty column

M-up/down

Move row up/down

M-S-up

Delete current row or horizontal line

M-S-down

Insert empty row

C-c -

Insert horizontal line below current row

C-c RET

Insert horizontal line & row

C-c ^

Sort table

Hyperlinks

C-c C-l

Edit/insert link

C-c l

Store link to current location

C-c C-o

Open link; customize-variable org-file-apps

Task lists

M-S-RET

Insert task item

C-c C-t

Toggle TODO/DONE

C-c / t

View task items in sparse tree

C-c a t

Global task list; from all agendas

C-c ,

Set priority

S-up/down

Increase/decrease priority

S-right/left

???

[/]

Track subtask progress as completed/total

[%]

Track subtask progress as percentage

Tags

C-c C-q

Add tag to headline

C-c / m

Create a sparse tree matching a tags search

C-c a m

Create a global list of tag matches from all agendas

C-c a M

Create a global list of TODO items that match tag

Properties

C-c C-x p

Set a property

C-c C-c d

Remove a property; when cursor in properties

Dates & Times

Timestamps

C-c .

Create a date <2016-05-27 Fri> & agenda entry

C-c !

Create a date [2016-05-27 Fri] w/o agenda entry

S-right/left

Change date by a day

S-up/down

Change date element under cursor

Deadlines & Scheduling

C-c C-d

Insert DEADLINE

C-c C-s

Insert SCHEDULED

Clocking work time

C-c C-x C-i

Clock-in

C-c C-x C-o

Clock-out

C-c C-x C-e

Update effort estimate for current clock task

C-c C-x C-q

Cancel current clock

C-c C-x C-j

Jump to entry with current running clock

C-c C-x C-r

Create time clock

Capture - Refile - Archive

Capture

C-c c

Start capture

C-c C-c

Complete capture

C-c C-w

Finalize by moving entry to a refile location

C-c C-k

Abort capture

Refile and copy

C-c M-x

Copy entry

C-c C-w

Refile entry

C-u C-c C-w

Use refile interface to jump to a heading

C-u C-u C-c C-w

Jump to location refile last moved a tree to

Archive

C-c C-x C-a

Archive current entry

C-c $

Arche subtree to org-archive-location

#+ARCHIVE: `file-template`

Specify archive location for current file

Agenda Views

Agenda files

C-c [

Add current file to list of agenda files

C-c ]

Remove current file from list of agenda files

C-,

Cycle through agenda file list

Agenda dispatcher

C-c a

Interactive agenda view

t

View of TODOs

T

Global view of TODOs

m

View of headlines with matching tag

M

Global view of headlines with matching tag

L

Timeline view of current buffer

Markup

#+TITLE: `title here`

Adds title to document

#+OPTIONS: `opt`

Add an option for export. Can be used multiple times

Blocks

#+BEGIN_VERSE … #+END_VERSE

Quote, including whitespace

#+BEGIN_QUOTE … #+END_QUOTE

Quote

#+BEGIN_CENTER … #+END_CENTER

Center block

#+BEGIN_COMMENT … #+END_COMMENT

Comment section, won’t be exported

C-c ;

Toggle COMMENT on entry

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE … #+END_EXAMPLE

Example block

#+BEGIN_SRC `lang` … #+END_SRC

`lang` Source block

#+BEGIN_HTML … #+END_HTML

HTML block

Text formatting

*bold*

Text between asterisks is bold

/italic/

Text between slashes is italicized

_underlined_

Text between underbars is underlined

+strike-through+

Text between pluses is striked-through

=code=

Text between equals is code

~verbatim~

Text between tildes is verbatim

Items (e.g., images, tables, links and includes)

#+CAPTION: `caption here`

Add caption to next item

#+NAME: `name`

Name next item

#+INCLUDE: `file` [`example`|`src` `lang`]

Embed file on export

Exporting

C-c C-e #

Add options for export

C-c C-e t U

UTF-8 export to temporary buffer

C-c C-e h h

HTML export to `current-file-name.html`

C-c C-e h o

HTML export, open in browser

C-c C-e l p

PDF export to `current-file-name.pdf`

C-c C-e l o

PDF export, open in PDF viewer

Babel

#+BEGIN_SRC `lang` `switches` `header args`

Begin of a babel block

• Header arguments

  :var

  Variables being passed to code block

  :results

  Controls handling of code block’s results

  vector, scalar, file, raw, html, latex

  Processing of result

  silent, replace, prepend, append

  If and how to add to buffer

  :session

  Enable persistent evaluation between code blocks

  :exports `code`|`results`|`both`|`none`

  What to export

  :tangle `no`|`yes`|`filename`

  Specify tangle file for export

  C-c C-v t

  Tangle current org-mode buffer

  :cache `yes`|`no`

  `yes` only reruns if inputs change

  :file `filename`

  File used by blocks that produce files