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Here's some useful defaults for Sway: (the default mod key is meta, aka the windows key)
Lay-out:
When using split lay-out (these take a little getting used to):
Placing windows next to each other will put them in a "group" together, which you can see by them sharing the same blue title bar thing. Using these shortcuts changes how the windows in the group are represented.
I found getting windows in/out of the group I want, and especially splitting and re-arranging groups within groups, to be a little unpredictable, but after using Sway for a while you do get used to it.
Forgot one thing: that top bar is also entirely configurable. It's called waybar, and you can find the docs here: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration
Pretty much everything in Sway is configurable, as most of it is just written in a config file. You can use different application launchers (fuzzel, for example), you can add a notification centre like swaync, or just customise waybar with whatever modules you want. I think you can even switch out waybar for something else, but I haven't tried that myself.