Moving from HTC and sense to nexus and pure Google

Ok so I'm jumping ship ,been HTC for ever and love sense but M9 was a big let down and with a upgrade due I'm not waiting for M10.I love sense though and like my phone clean and very rarely move off home screen for stuff expect BlinkFeed,so any tips on how to make pure Google work for me while retaining some sort of sense

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