Start an org file with all headers collapsed

Question

Whenever I open an org file, I want to see only the outline, so I want to have all the headers collapsed. I'm using doom emacs, this is what I have in my config.org file:

(setq org-startup-folded "overview")

I also tried it like this:

(after! org
(setq org-startup-folded "overview"))

Both of these do not work.

When I put this in the org file, it does work:

#+STARTUP: overview

However, I want this setting to be global and not file specific.

Answer 1

I think the help is a little misleading on this one. You need to set org-startup-folded to t, not "overview":

(setq org-startup-folded t)

Alternatively, you can use the customize-variable interface to do this interactively (i.e., M-x customize-variable org-startup-folded).