snap2grid,
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Looking at Boxy Headings in and, damn, if that isn't just a smidge away from being a graphical synopsis mode for authors.

I dream of the day I can write a paragraph of synopsis in a properties block and have a “synopsis view” but my lisp skills are almost nonexistent.

sachac,
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@snap2grid Another option might be to put your synopsis in a subtree that has a tag, like this:

* Chapter 1  
** Synopsis :syn:  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
** Body  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
* Chapter 2  
** Synopsis :syn:  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
This is a test. It has several lines in it.  
** Body  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  
This is a much longer thing.  

Then you'll need the following in your Emacs configuration (typically ~/.config/emacs/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.el):

(with-eval-after-load 'org (push '(tags-tree . local) org-fold-show-context-detail))

After that, C-c \ (org-match-sparse-tree) with syn as the input should collapse everything except for the subtrees matching :syn:. By default, matching headlines are shown but stay collapsed, which is why we added tags-tree local to the org-fold-show-context-detail variable. (It's org-show-context-detail in Org < 9.6.) If you add more tags, you can even display subsets of the synopses depending on the tags you put in (syn+tag1+tag2...).

snap2grid,
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Unless, as I've seen suggested in the past, the headings /are/ the synopsis...

Hmm.

ctietze,
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snap2grid,
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@ctietze
That's the one, yeah.

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