> Can anyone give me an example of when it's a good idea to use lists > rather than headlines?
Headlines often are too heavy for my taste. My reading notes as well as my notes for writing usually do not have a title. (You might think it good practice to come up with a title, but my experiments tell me otherwise.) Headlines are too noisy, both on screen and when exporting. > when you use them, and then try to use pretty much any > other Org feature on them (marking them as a TODO item, tagging, etc.) > it doesn't work because lists aren't meant to be used that way. True, but there are ways around that: - Instead of tagging, write the keywords after the item (use custom links or hooks to supress exporting) - Use visual-line-mode and search with multi occur. - use =#+TODO:= instead of todo keywords (and use multi occur). - To uniquely id items, add timestamps (and use multi occur). - Write a function to refile items (my hack is a bit idiosyncratic so I don't share it here, but it should be pretty straighforward using =(org-refile t)= to get the location). -- Florian Beck