In light of the surging research on porous organic materials, we herein discuss the key issues of their porous structures, surface properties, and end functions. We also present an outlook on emerging opportunities, new applications, and data science-assisted materials discovery. Porous organic materials have diverse compositions and tunable pore sizes (Fig. 1), which have enabled a wide variety of applications including separation, filtration, storage, catalysis, and drug delivery. According to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry definition, the pores in the porous organic materials are classified into micropores (<2 nm), mesopores (2-50 nm), and macropores (>50 nm). It is often beneficial for porous organic materials to possess hierarchical pores across multiple length scales. The size exclusion of these pores, as well as the physical and chemical interactions of molecules with pore surfaces, offer the porous organic materials tunable permeability and selectivity that are critical to their applications.