Two little tricks I use in #OrgMode in #Emacs to note down tangents and separate thoughts when writing my running notes at work, and journaling privately.

Posted as a screenshot because I'm too lazy to write a proper blog post.

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@temporal that's normally the construct for code blocks. Is there a way to have it folded by default, so the clutter isn't visible whenever the doc is opened?

@resist1984 Apparently the coarse-grained way to do that is through setting org-hide-block-startup to t, or on a per-file basis with #+STARTUP: hideblocks. That will, unfortunately, apply to *all* such blocks - code, quotes, examples, custom blocks, etc.

I don't see anything that would let you to choose which type of blocks should start folded by default.

@temporal i suppose "#+STARTUP: hideblocks" will work nicely on docs that use the code blocks exclusively for tangents

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