Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on Emacs dired tips. Dired is amazingly powerful but most of us don’t begin to take advantage of its capabilities. Mbork looks at a few things you can do to enhance your workflow with dired. Many of them I was (and you probably are) familiar with but I did learn about how to omit “uninteresting” files.
He covers several areas so you should take a look. If you learn even one thing you didn’t know, it will be time well spent.