Hello from Florida.

Hey barb and Welcome !!!!
I am looking forward to some short cuts to maintaining my pool.
So here's the thing and it's gonna sound a little weird. If you put more effort into maintaining your pool, you'll end up anticipating what it needs before it needs it. (Comfirmed with testing of course). So the more effort learning TFP becomes less effort in the long run.

Then we have 1000s of ideas and hacks to make things easier. Read up and ask away in any of the appropriate sub-forums.