org: Priorities
5.4 Priorities
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If you use Org mode extensively, you may end up with enough TODO items
that it starts to make sense to prioritize them. Prioritizing can be
done by placing a _priority cookie_ into the headline of a TODO item,
like this
*** TODO [#A] Write letter to Sam Fortune
By default, Org mode supports three priorities: ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’. ‘A’
is the highest priority. An entry without a cookie is treated just like
priority ‘B’. Priorities make a difference only for sorting in the
agenda (
Weekly/daily agenda); outside the agenda, they have no
inherent meaning to Org mode. The cookies can be highlighted with
special faces by customizing ‘org-priority-faces’.
Priorities can be attached to any outline node; they do not need to
be TODO items.
‘C-c ,’
Set the priority of the current headline (‘org-priority’). The
command prompts for a priority character ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’. When you
press <SPC> instead, the priority cookie is removed from the
headline. The priorities can also be changed “remotely” from the
timeline and agenda buffer with the ‘,’ command (Agenda
commands).
‘S-<up> (org-priority-up)’
‘S-<down> (org-priority-down)’
Increase/decrease priority of current headline(1). Note that these
keys are also used to modify timestamps (Creating
timestamps). See also Conflicts, for a discussion of the
interaction with ‘shift-selection-mode’.
You can change the range of allowed priorities by setting the options
‘org-highest-priority’, ‘org-lowest-priority’, and
‘org-default-priority’. For an individual buffer, you may set these
values (highest, lowest, default) like this (please make sure that the
highest priority is earlier in the alphabet than the lowest priority):
#+PRIORITIES: A C B
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(1) See also the option ‘org-priority-start-cycle-with-default’.
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