I am following the trails on the wiki and I am able to get the Hybris project set up in Eclipse just fine. But because I am new to Intellij Idea and I am still trying to grasp the idea of "projects" instead of "workspaces", I am having a hard time translating the Eclipse setup steps into intellij idea steps. I have Hybris - how do I "open" it in Intellij Idea? (Apologies ahead of time for the noob question but appreciate any input someone can give me).
Just install "Hybris Integration" plugin it will do everything automatically. You will be able to import Hybris projects just like maven or gradle based projects. That plugin provides Hybris integration into Intellij IDEA and another IDE based on it.
You can install it to your IDE directly from the repository by clicking on the "Browse Repositories" button in Settings/Plugins dialog.