diff --git a/dotfiles/nvim/init.lua b/dotfiles/nvim/init.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75875d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dotfiles/nvim/init.lua
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+require("dracoling.set")
diff --git a/dotfiles/nvim/lua/dracoling/set.lua b/dotfiles/nvim/lua/dracoling/set.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9205378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dotfiles/nvim/lua/dracoling/set.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+vim.opt.nu = true
+vim.opt.relativenumber = true
+
+vim.opt.wrap = false
+
+vim.opt.smartindent = true
+
+vim.opt.tabstop = 4
+vim.opt.softtabstop = 4
+vim.opt.shiftwidth = 4
+vim.opt.expandtab = true
+
+vim.opt.hlsearch = false
+vim.opt.incsearch = true
+
+vim.opt.colorcolumn = "80"
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 5879198..a1534c1 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -13,3 +13,9 @@ Need to connect new devices to the coordinator in order to access the tailscale
 ## Refactor machine defaults
 Could probably merge some of the default locale settings and stuff, maybe even make the x11 config more generic
 
+## Dotfiles management and configuration installation
+At this point to use this repo you need to grab the configuration.nix, the machine local configs,
+and the programs and throw them into /etc/nixos, then you need to grab the dotfiles and put them 
+in .config... this is all done by hand. There should be a way using either `nix`, or `stow`, or `chezmoi`,
+or some other already extant tool to do this in a slightly more automated fashion. The point of
+this is to be easy for me to use and keep up with after all.