Michael Sorens has some time-saving defaults for Powershell:
Besides setting up some convenient shortcuts for use with built-in cmdlets, for developers it is also handy to be able to work some magic with your own custom cmdlets. In my shop, for example, we have one module containing a couple dozen cmdlets, many of which use a common parameter,
Mode. ThisModeparameter varies from client to client, but for any single client, every cmdlet working on their data needs to use the same value ofMode. So I have to add-Mode hist-0010-dev.testonto each cmdlet I am using, which gets very tiring/annoying very quickly. You could, of course, put that value into a variable and then just use, e .g.-Mode $myMode, which is less typing, but if less is better, then no typing at all is better still.
There are a lot of tips in this article, so take some time with it.