This software is an absolute beast! I can't wait to see what it has evolved into six months from now.
I agree. I mostly use the same settings in the options area for all projects, such as, Skip sites with more than, Skip sites with a PR below, Search engines to use, Bad sites list, etc, etc. If there was a way to save a set of default settings or, even better, multiple individually nameable sets of settings (handy when setting up different kinds of projects , e.g. links to money site, links to tier 1 sites, links to tier 2 sites, etc) it would make it especially easy to apply to new projects. So, ideally, the option should be somewhere to select "Apply default options to new projects" with the "default" choice being clickable so it can be changed to another user defined setting if need be.
I realize that the option exists to make a duplicate project but that doesn't always come without its problems. Sometimes it just makes better sense to start a clean project from scratch in which case the above would be of help.
To take it a step further, I guess it would be a great help when we prepare a new project if we could categorize it in some way with custom categories. For example, I would probably name some of my categories as 'Money site', 'Tier 1', 'Tier 2', etc. Then if we were able to assign one of the aforementioned default settings to each category we would save a lot of time setting up projects, and keep things a bit more organized. However, we should still be able to tweak the settings within the option panel if need be.
Just a suggestion.