> Yeah, I've been trying it recently and I'm not entirely convinced I want to keep using it.

> My biggest annoyance at the moment (and this may be me missing something), is that I have two directories: "thing" and "thing-api". I'm doing work in "thing" much more often than in the "thing-api", but whenever I run "z thing", it takes me to "thing-api" first, and I have to "z thing" again to get to where I wanted to go. It ends up being more effort than if I'd just tab-completed or history searched a plain cd command.

AFAIK the z command does take frequency into account (or was it most recent visit). However to avoid going into thing-api instead of thing I believe you just type thing/ i.e. At the slash and z will take you to thing (that obviously doesn't work with tab completion though).

I found that after some time I have gotten so used to z (which I aliases to cd) that I wouldn't want to live without it.