> org-mode if there were a way to clone nodes. I believe that what you are explaining is essentially the equivalent to a symbolic/hard link. As far as I know,

> org-mode if there were a way to clone nodes. I believe that what you are explaining is essentially the equivalent to a symbolic/hard link. As far as I know, one of the goals of org-mode is to have a format that does not diverge from pain text. Similar to markdown, an org-mode file is always completely readable as pain text, whether using emacs it not. That means the only way to have an updated "copy" (reference) of a tree would be to automatically copy any changes made to every copy of that tree. That would either require some sort of run-time mark (that would disappear as soon as you kill the buffer), or special syntax. As far as I know, org-mode does not have such a feature.