I haven’t actually exported my gerbers yet, but I’ll add a section for that when I do.
Help my ground plane is obstructing my view of everything! - Change the transparency! Right click on the layers below, select layer transparency > signal layers and adjust the polygon transparency. How do I update my design rules? - right click in PCB document > Design > Design Rules. How do I start routing interactively? - ‘p’ for place, then ’t’ to start routing interactively. Your components should be imported into your new PCB file. Then, from a schematic view, hit Design > Update PCB Document. Now what? - Be sure you annotate your schematics so there are no components with “?”. Help! - When you place the part, right click first and then select the first part, then after placement it will allow you to place the remaining parts. I am placing a multi-part component but only see the first part. You can adjust it in Project > Project Options > Connection Matrix Why does Altium complain about floating sources, mismatched I/O pins, etc.? - The default connection matrix is a bit unintuitive, and won’t always recognize capacitively coupled connections. Why are there “?” everywhere? - you have to set up the designators! Find it under Tools > Annotate schematics. Place a wire in schematic (shortcut!) - the ‘p’ button brings up the place menu and the ‘w’ button places a wire. Displaying Resistor/Capacitor values - not sure how to do it by default, but you can double click on a component after you’ve placed it to turn the “value” parameter on. 
Where are all the components? - in the vault! Which is found in View > Workspace Panels > System > Vaults. Below is a list of a few little things that seem simple in theory, but were non-intuitive for me to figure out the first time around (even with the help of google and the tutorial pdfs and videos). While Altium is definitely a more professional tool, I found the startup time for my first design to be a bit longer than I would have liked. I decided to switch from Eagle to Altium for the next PCB I am designing for my PhD.
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