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### 10.4 Presentation and sorting

Before displaying items in an agenda view, Org-mode visually prepares the items and sorts them. Each item occupies a single line. The line starts with a prefix that contains the category (see Categories) of the item and other important information. You can customize the prefix using the option `org-agenda-prefix-format`. The prefix is followed by a cleaned-up version of the outline headline associated with the item.