Unlocking Cursor AI: Top 8 Hidden Features

If you are a pro Cursor AI user, you must know these 8 features that takes you far beyond the toy project examples that many people are showing you.

Relevant Links:

https://cursor.directory/ - starter templates for .cursorrules

Timecodes:

0:00 - Intro

0:45 - The ".cursorrules" file + Rules for AI Setting

2:32 - Command Generation (cmd+k in terminal)

3:22 - Must-know Keyboard Shortcuts

4:11 - Codebase-wide Context in AI Chat

6:27 - Custom Docs (auto scrapped)

8:16 - Notepads in Composer (undocumented awesome feature)

11:01 - Save vs Accept Changes in Composer

12:06 - Version Control (it will save you so much time)

13:18 - What's Next?

Correction:

5:50 - Cursor calculates and stores the embeddings on their server