To display the buffer in the indented view, activate Org Indent minor mode, using M-x org-indent-mode. Text lines that are not headlines are prefixed with virtual spaces to vertically align with the headline text147.
To make more horizontal space, the headlines are shifted by two
characters. Configure org-indent-indentation-per-level variable for
a different number.
By default, Org Indent mode turns off org-adapt-indentation and does
hide leading stars by locally setting org-hide-leading-stars to t:
only one star on each headline is visible, the rest are masked with
the same font color as the background. If you want to customize this
default behavior, see org-indent-mode-turns-on-hiding-stars and
org-indent-mode-turns-off-org-adapt-indentation.
To globally turn on Org Indent mode for all files, customize the
variable org-startup-indented. To control it for individual files,
use ‘STARTUP’ keyword as follows:
#+STARTUP: indent #+STARTUP: noindent
Org Indent mode also sets wrap-prefix correctly for
indenting and wrapping long lines of headlines or text. This minor
mode also handles Visual Line mode and directly applied settings
through word-wrap.