Hello Sharon,
Unfortunately I cannot reproduce your issue. I created a list of 56 sub heading and I can view the heading Still a sample 0 until Still a sample 56. ** TODO * etc and onwards ** TODO * and another one ** Still a sample 0 ** Still a sample 1 ** Still a sample 2 ** Still a sample 3 ** Still a sample 4 It might be because I am using [1] this modification from emacswiki https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ImenuMode. I another workflow comes to my mind when reading yours. Instead of using "TODO * ..." I would use the TODO keywords and tell org-mode to list all the todos. For instance with the command M-x org-show-todo-tree. A another way of working might be the following. --- file - writings.org #+TODO: TODO(t) TOWRITE(w) | DONE(d) * TOWRITE This is article 1 * TOWRITE This is article 2 * DONE This is article 2 #+begin_src elisp (org-agenda-file-to-front) #+end_src --- EOF Add the file to the agenda ( by default C-[ ), or execute the lisp chunk in the file writings.org. Then you can M-x org-todo-list. To view all your todo|towrite|done articles. Hope this help, Jeremie [1] ;; * imenu (defun ido-goto-symbol (&optional symbol-list) "Refresh imenu and jump to a place in the buffer using Ido." (interactive) (unless (featurep 'imenu) (require 'imenu nil t)) (cond ((not symbol-list) (let ((ido-mode ido-mode) (ido-enable-flex-matching (if (boundp 'ido-enable-flex-matching) ido-enable-flex-matching t)) name-and-pos symbol-names position) (unless ido-mode (ido-mode 1) (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)) (while (progn (imenu--cleanup) (setq imenu--index-alist nil) (ido-goto-symbol (imenu--make-index-alist)) (setq selected-symbol (ido-completing-read "Symbol? " symbol-names)) (string= (car imenu--rescan-item) selected-symbol))) (unless (and (boundp 'mark-active) mark-active) (push-mark nil t nil)) (setq position (cdr (assoc selected-symbol name-and-pos))) (cond ((overlayp position) (goto-char (overlay-start position))) (t (goto-char position))))) ((listp symbol-list) (dolist (symbol symbol-list) (let (name position) (cond ((and (listp symbol) (imenu--subalist-p symbol)) (ido-goto-symbol symbol)) ((listp symbol) (setq name (car symbol)) (setq position (cdr symbol))) ((stringp symbol) (setq name symbol) (setq position (get-text-property 1 'org-imenu-marker symbol)))) (unless (or (null position) (null name) (string= (car imenu--rescan-item) name)) (add-to-list 'symbol-names name) (add-to-list 'name-and-pos (cons name position)))))))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c i") 'ido-goto-symbol) ; or any key you see fit