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Hoping the question is not too brief, I'm assuming this is a fairly common operation - but I can't seem to find anything in the docs about this.

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  • By /everything/ do you mean all subheadings, source blocks, property blocks, logbooks, and archived branches? – Juancho May 19 '18 at 11:01
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    Pressing Shift + tab? – Daniel May 19 '18 at 18:30
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    Shift tab expands everything in the document. – Chris Stryczynski May 19 '18 at 20:19
  • I would imagine that the answer in this related thread does what you want and then something extra that you do not want: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/29304/how-to-show-all-contents-of-current-subtree-and-fold-all-the-other-subtrees Perhaps you can just eliminate the last step that you don't want ... – lawlist May 19 '18 at 21:16

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I was looking for this as well. It took me a while to find since it's not mentioned anywhere in the docs, but it appears that the org-show-subtree command does exactly what you want.

If you use Doom Emacs, it's bound to z O.

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org-show-subtree was exactly I was looking for. I just want to add that the command was changed to org-fold-show-subtree (org-show-subtree is an obsolete command (as of Org version 9.6); use org-fold-show-subtree instead)

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  • What is that "9.6"? Is that an Org release number or something? If you know, maybe mention it in the answer. (If you don't know, that's fine.) Thx. – Drew Jun 30 '23 at 12:54
  • 9.6 is the Org version, yes, visible in the variable `org-version`. Btw, there's also `org-fold-show-branches`, which only shows nested headings, but not text in them—useful for a more compact overview. Alas, Org doesn't appear to have a function for showing headings and text, but with properties kept hidden—which would be helpful for people who slap metadata on everything. – aaa Jun 30 '23 at 13:33
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    You can add an after-advice to any such commands using `org-hide-drawer-all`. – NickD Jul 01 '23 at 14:07
  • @NickD Brilliant, thanks. – aaa Jul 01 '23 at 20:08