Complete Cursor

https://www.jointakeoff.com/courses/cursor

I wasn't certain whether to sign up at first as I couldn't find any reviews, but the videos are very clear and include some tips that won't be in the documentation. While all the information is available online, and there will be free videos on YouTube, it's very convenient to have everything in one place like this.

Aside from the standard features of Cursor, the course has a couple of projects and a range of tips to get the best use out of the software. These include voice transcription (which is faster than typing), using markdown for to-do lists (as the models can read these, implement the ideas, and update the file markdown files with the latest status), and getting the chat function to generate useful links to external sources such as V0 and Perplexity.

Beginner project

While the videos in the course show how to build a Next.js app with a Shadcn UI, I decided to build it in Python with Streamlit instead as I'm more likely to use those at work. Claude quickly built an attractive UI, but struggled with some of the features/limitations of Streamlit. I found myself switching to o1-mini on occasion for more persistent bugs.

Advanced project

As of the time of writing, this is yet to be released.