[O] proposal to have ignoreheading tags/properties

[Mark Edgington]

In using org-mode, there is one problem that has always irked me (and
is apparently also closely related to the FAQ "How do I ignore a
headline?").  When I am writing something, I sometimes want to group
things by concept or by work to be done, or any other number of
groupings.  BUT I do not want these groupings to be part of the
exported document itself.  In fact, I would like it to be as if the
grouping did not exist at all (i.e. a headline that is ignored).

The problem with using an ignored headline for grouping things is that
it still does have an effect on exported document structure, in that
all of the elements contained "inside / in the scope of" the ignored
headline still keep their depth (one level deeper than the level of
the ignored headline).

What I want is for the nested items to have their levels all promoted
by one, so that it's truly as if the ignored headline wasn't there at
all, and that it invisibly wrapped around a group of items without
requiring them to have a deeper level.  Perhaps this could be done by
use of an "ignoreheading" and an "ignoreheadingpromote" tag (one
promotes the level of contained items, another doesn't), or some
equivalent set of properties that could be set on a headline.

Would there be any chance that something like this could be built in
to org-mode?  I think it would make it far more flexible in terms of
organizing things, making this organization process orthogonal to the
selection of sections/subsections of a document.