Homebrew PCBs

I use Eagle.
first I autoroute the power nets, then manually straighten, relocate and widen the power lines. move chips and caps around to optimize the board. this can take several iterations.
next I autoroute the large nets, those with many points per signal like clocks and so; I clear and straighten them by hand.
last I autoroute everything. this checks for errors in previous steps and fills in all those simple (??) two point traces.
as always there are still some hard to get through signals.