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Emacs lisp function to jump to random org heading. Useful for getting a random note from a giant org file.
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| (defun my/org-random-heading () | |
| "Jump to a random org heading in the current org file." | |
| (interactive) | |
| (goto-char (point-min)) | |
| (let ((headings '())) | |
| (while (re-search-forward "^\\*+ " nil t) | |
| (push (point) headings)) | |
| (when headings | |
| (goto-char (nth (random (length headings)) headings)) | |
| (org-reveal)))) | |
| (with-eval-after-load "org" | |
| (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c n R") #'my/org-random-heading)) |
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There is also M-x org-random-todo-goto-new from https://github.com/unhammer/org-random-todo :)