Speed Up Your Workflow With IntelliJ

Tips and tricks to maximise the features provided in IntelliJ and become a productivity ninja

I do the bulk of my test automation development in Kotlin/Java or Python languages. After the programming language, a very important component for the dev workflow is a good IDE.

Purists generally rave about the use of Editors like Sublime, VSCode or even use of Vim/Emacs over full-fledged IDE’s like Jetbrains IntelliJ, Pycharm or Eclipse. However, the truth is most modern devs in this day and age use/prefer IDE’s for the host of convenience features, speed, and flexibility they provide.

If you’ve used IntelliJ, then ppen up IntelliJ > Help > Productivity Guide and see how much time it has saved you.

This is my breakdown in the past two years:

However,

To start with, did you know all Jetbrains editors come with a very good VIM support via IdeaVim plugin? Vim commands are amazing.

Once you get used to them, your editing and code navigation speed is easily multiplied 2X and it’s so easy to use…

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