On Wednesday, 17 Jan 2018 at 12:57, Ali M. wrote: > What does starting a line or item with # mean to org-mode From the manual: Lines starting with zero or more whitespace characters followed by one ‘#’ and a whitespace are treated as comments and, as such, are not exported. HTH, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.6-39-gc82c21