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What can I do with org mode in Emacs?
Fortunately, org-mode has an extremely granular face selection, so you can easily customize them to have different elements shown in the correct font, color, and size.
How to enable visual line mode in Emacs?
You can enable visual-line-mode automatically for org buffers by setting up another hook: After all the changes above, you will have nice, proportional fonts in your Org buffers. However, there are some things for which you still want monospace fonts!
How to use org-bullets package in Emacs?
The org-bullets package replaces all headline markers with different Unicode bullets: Finally, we set up a nice proportional font, in different sizes, for the headlines. The fonts listed will be tried in sequence, and the first one found will be used.
How does org mode deal with repeated entries?
The problem with this is, however, is that then also the next instance of the repeated entry will not be active. Org mode deals with this in the following way: when you try to mark such an entry as done, using C-c C-t, it shifts the base date of the repeating timestamp by the repeater interval, and immediately sets the entry state back to TODO 70.
Do you still need monospace fonts in org mode?
After all the changes above, you will have nice, proportional fonts in your Org buffers. However, there are some things for which you still want monospace fonts! Things like source blocks, examples, tags and some other markup elements still look better in a fixed-spacing font, in my opinion.
What does org mode look like in gruvbox?
To wet your appetite, here is what a fragment of my init.org file looked like with the Gruvbox theme: And this is how it looks now with the light Spacemacs theme: My first step was to make org-mode much more readable by using different fonts for headings, hiding some of the markup, and improving list bullets.