Priorities (Org Mode Compact Guide)

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### 5.4 Priorities

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

Org mode supports three priorities: ‘`A`’, ‘`B`’, and ‘`C`’. ‘`A`’ is the highest, ‘`B`’ the default if none is given. Priorities make a difference only in the agenda.

`C-c ,`

  Set the priority of the current headline. Press `A`, `B` or `C` to select a priority, or `SPC` to remove the cookie.

`S-UP` (`org-priority-up`)
`S-DOWN` (`org-priority-down`)

  Increase/decrease the priority of the current headline.