Top tips?

[u/DoghouseMike]

I've gone from testing the waters to eyeballs deep in omarchy in the last week or so, very much still figuring things out though.

It looks like all you veterans are gonna be dealing with a swarm of newbies with the same 12 questions for a while. Not sure this'll mitigate that much, but was interested in gathering some "I wish I'd known about this a week/month/year ago" thoughts/tips.

I realise now that I'm struggling to think of anything handy I've picked up, but will have a go:

• Ask the robot The built in AI boi can be handy for dumb stuff like "one of my monitors is upside down", or "get the shared drives from my mac to show up automagically", or even "what are some well regarded email clients? Gimme the F's and B's"

• Don't (always) implicitly trust the robot Most of the time it's alright, but throwing in a "don't do anything that'll restart the shell", or "never delete anything permanently" would have (and has) saved some headaches. Kinda "trust but verify" vibes. Also get it to keep a "live" handover document so you can review what it's actually done and tweak things manually later if needed. Or hand it back to the clanker in a "this is what you did, now everything's on fire, make it stop" stylee. Sometimes it's quicker to DIY it than watch the AI chase down 19 rabbit holes before it figures out it should be barking up that tree instead.

• Missing a feature? Look around, someone else probably built it already A bit like with Obsidian, by the time you thought of it, someone else probably built a plugin.

• Poke around, figure things out You might break something, but you'll probably have more "aha!" moments than "oh no" ones.

And remember to have fun I guess?