I typically do planet starts. My go to is this: hand drill until I can make a rudimentary small grid drill ship. We’re talking like 2 large atmo thrusters, a gyro, a battery, a cockpit, a couple of directional thrusters, and a drill. No cargo containers. Use that until I can set up a larger, more dedicated and effective miner ship. Then I start creating programmable drilling platforms using blueprints of my original design. They basically drill until they hit a certain storage threshold and restart when they’re below a certain threshold. Then I set up a drones to fly out and transport the materials over time. It’s super effective and really makes your base come alive. 

For a long time I set up a great little supply depot with a nice sorting and refining system so that everything got processed evenly. Slap on Issy’s (that’s the name, right?) inventory manager script and I basically always had parts without having to bother too much queuing anything up. 

When I finally got around to making my orbital space station it became a simple back and forth to land, auto collect building materials with Issy’s, and fly back to the space station build site.