I find it to much of a struggle with an equatorial mount like yours, so i decided to study sky charts, and now i know my way around the sky and where most things are so i have a fairly good idea of where to point a manual telescope. The polar alignment takes a time to do in the southern hemisphere since we don't have a very bright south pole star unlike the Northern hemisphere. so i suggest to just study charts to find your way around the sky, and i would reckon it's much better to have a good understanding of where everything is than to just use setting circles to find something
Just my thought
-Sean