I'd add installing zsh+oh-my-zsh. Impressive autocompletion, fuzzy matching, shortcuts, themes (I think agnoster is great), plugins... It's really great and I w

I'd add installing zsh+oh-my-zsh. Impressive autocompletion, fuzzy matching, shortcuts, themes (I think agnoster is great), plugins... It's really great and I wouldn't go back to bash. Some resources: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Cheatsheet https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Cheatsheet http://www.quora.com/zsh/What-are-the-cool-features-of-zsh-that-beat-other-shells http://www.quora.com/zsh/What-are-the-cool-features-of-zsh-t... I'd also install autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump to jump quickly between directories instead of using symlinks. Instead of cd ~/project, you just do j project, or maybe j proj is enough for autojump to know where you want to go.