Introduction
Based on the Free Docs that make reference to the default process of learning how to use any System, they describe how useful or not, the manual pages of any system can be. Then I found some links here about BSD systems, that are other blogs or articles, git repositories or gists, that make reference of the manuals in some order.
Is like that awesome adventure where you start learning something new, while you need some clues about where to start. Since life is about Time and reading and thinking about what we read takes time, since we are not immortals, we need to organize our time to read any big manual in the propor sequence. We can assume that users knows the basic. How to create directories or files, how to change their names or $PATH, what are variables and what are scripts and programs, how to create users, change permissions, how to edit files by using an editor like Vim, how to organize their space in the terminal using tmux, based on what the manuals describe, while we cannot deny that some articles that we find on the web, can help to simplify our understanding about some detail that probably have a manual that guide us to use what we should use for our specific case.
The Manual Reference for OpenBSD in a Proper Sequence
OpenBSD don't give any reading sequence, assuming that the user is new to the system and therefor the sequence of reading the manuals are Free of sequence. But is really useful to know how to start, using their man pages that anyone can access them, offline or Online
The first man pages after booting the first time and reading the emails are this ones: man afterboot, man syspatch, man security, man intro, man hier, man passwd, man chpass and man kbd. For Date & Time, we have the man date and man ntpd. After that you may wish to read about the main Networking pieces to configure our system, that are man myname, man mygate, man hostname, man netstart, man ifconfig, man resolv.conf. To understand how to system boots and what service can run or not by defult, we read man init, man rc, man rc.conf & man rc.conf.local, man rcctl, man rc.d, man rc.subr and finally man reboot & man halt to now how to reboot or shutdown properly.