Alex Schroeder is an Emacs user who, like me, does as much as he can in Emacs. Also like me, he spends most of his tube time in Emacs or a browser. Unlike me, he uses EWW for a good part of his browsing. I’ve tried to do that too but could never make it stick. Something always seems to go wrong.
Schroeder has an interesting post in which he documents some of his configuration. Especially interesting is his Dired configurations. He use Dired as his file manager so it gets a lot of use and he has some tweaks that you might not know about. If you’re an EMMS user, you might be interested in how he uses Dired as his play list.
If you’re looking for ways to subsume more of your tasks under Emacs, Schroeder’s post may have some ideas you can use. Take a look; if nothing else you’ll enjoy his rant about open plan offices.