Top Ten Tips for Using Cursor

10 minutes to check an almost do-it-yourself operation.

1. Always start a new project in an empty folder. Cursor opens the project root folder by default.

2. When stating your requirements, try to be clear but careful, Cursor will do exactly what you want. Unnecessary information will make it more difficult to realize (for example, if you operate a file locally on your computer, but mention "upload", it may add complex back-end development content), and over-simplification will give the Cursor a free hand, and it will be easy to get out of control.

3. Let the Cursor from the beginning of the project to write README.md document, record clear product features, implementation of the technology stack , etc., and let it in the completion of the key nodes in a timely manner to update.

4. Let Cursor write code to write clear comments on each code block to help you learn and understand the logic of implementation.

5. Use Git to do version management, write a good description of the content of the key success nodes when submitting, to give yourself the opportunity to recover.

6. Use Composer to start a project, try to Save All, and then real-time testing, rather than Accept All, to give yourself space to deal with the problem, to confirm that the new changes are not a problem before Accept.

7. When using Composer and Chat function, try to @codebase, otherwise Cursor often have the illusion that they do not know what the project content is.

8. Commonly used document links can be added to Docs, such as you are used to using the AI API call document, easy to use at any time @.

9. Make good use of the Rules for AI in Settings, the prompts written in it are equivalent to the System Prompt, which can be used to ask the Cursor to answer the rhythm and style. In which to indicate clearly your programming experience and preferred language will be very helpful to the project.

10. After registering an account, when the free period or free times are used up, you can delete your account and log in again with your original email address, and you will get a 14-day 500 Claude 3.5 Sonnet access.