Uh-oh… I’m going to answer this. n_n

99% just dirs in ~/. ( Does making new dirs in /bedrock/strata count when manually adding strata? That’ll be about all there is in the other 1%. )

• ~/bin
• ~/gittings
• ~/gittings/Digit (where I keep my local copies of my own git repos)
• ~/images
• ~/images/scrots
• ~/images/ all the different things like dsktpbckgrnds, charts, memes, photos, gifs, etc & EDITS where I save most GIMP file artwork
• ~/sounds
• ~/.fonts (if the system does not create this already… so I can put my big tiny font collection “dbtfc” of otb and ttf fonts I made, in there, and have them “just work”).

Oh, and this one’s a little fun:

• ~/testdir in which i make a dir, a file, a media file, an executable, a fifo, a symlink, and a broken symlink, so I can ls that dir to see how everything looks in new themes.

And locations for my sshfs mounts and external drives (faster to type than putting them each in ~/mount or ~/media or ~/mnt).

• ~/bb
• ~/o
• ~/m or ~/t as symlinks to ~/mozart and ~/tyson depending on if on tyson or mozart. (I name my thinkpads after famous people born on the same day it arrives in the post).

And then on bb external hd, loads of dirs, some notable ones

• ./bkps
• ./software
• ./software/distros (where I store ISOs and system tarballs)
• ./software/configs/ ; crypto/ ; doc/ ; games/ ; langs/ ; other/ ; virtuals/
• ./cinema/
• ./cinema/library (hiding the library in cinema, so I see it more often ;D)
• ./cinema/_docu (for documentaries, lectures, interviews, etc)

And on the webserver

• ~/web
• ~/web/stuff
• ~/stuff (symlink to ^, that I use like my own personal pastebin) (… ~/o/stuff, from local machine).

• /ram - tmpfs filesystem
• ~/.local/bin - added to my path
• ~/.local/software - any user-local program more complicated than a binary gets a directory here. Generally a binary would be symlinked to ~/.local/bin
• ~/.local/venv - shared python venv to use for one liners and small scripts
• ~/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is configured to install from
• ~/.local/repo - local filesystem backed package repository for which the host system is not configured to install from (used for mock, VMs, and external systems).
• /overflow - Used to point to a large secondary hard drive (back when having a small ssd was the economical thing to do. Nowadays, it is just where my large directories go cause I can’t be bothered to get used to a more sane setup

I usually create ~/git/{github,gitlab,codeberg,AUR,etc} where I clone the git stuff I need.

The rest is usually handled by my nextcloud that creates the ~/Nextcloud folder.

Separate folders in the download one. One for each app. And a separate /home/sync folder with the same app separation folders to safekeep the backups of android apps and DCIM folder.

~/code for code

~/dots for git-backed nix configs

~/.rt for projects compiled locally (“runtime”)

~/Screencast for recordings of my screen

I also create a ~/.shrc.bash symlink that points to ~/dots/bash/bashrc that reats ~/dots/bash/*.bash and sources the files

~/.shenv.bash where I keep environment (computer) specific settings

From back when I used to freelance as a photo and video editor. ~/Media which was a mount point for my second hard drive with all the personal and paid customer’s I was working on, it was a mix of Music, Photos and Videos that I was creating, but not consuming if that makes sense.

Just a remnant from back when I had a small SSD with my OS and a second larger mechanical drive for everything else

• ~/Prototypes for … my prototypes, typically either starting from an empty directory or cloning a repository and adapting it for my needs. I have this directory on nearly all my devices, desktop of course but also NAS, server, phone, standalone XR headset, etc.
• ~/Apps in addition to ~/bin, typically binaries but all AppImages

A projects folder, usually. All the other folders at the root of $HOME are created by some application or another (XDG folder creator, applications that don’t respect XDG).

I make a YouTube subfolder to be downloaded YouTube videos in, and subfolders for podcasts, but those aren’t at the root of $HOME.

My homedir is an infernal hellhole of junk accumulated over the past 15 years and I wouldn’t have it any other way

Multiple people in this topic say they organise in directories for different programming languages, something I have never considered and I find it to be an odd way of organising for some reason I can’t explain.

Where do you put a project with a Javascript frontend and a Python backend?

My home folders on any OS have a Development folder (which conveniently sits right next to Documents and Downloads) and in that folder, I’ve also got subfolders per programming language that have the respective projects in them.

The other folder I usually have is SyncThing with whatever synced folders are relevant for that machine.

~/3D Objects

~/Homework (porn)

~/aaaaaaa (porn)

~/Stuff (memes, with a porn subfolder)

~/misc (work docs, study docs, forms, some porn)

At least two of these:
~/Stuff
~/Stuffs
~/Stuffz
~/Shits

I have /home/username/username/ and I sym link important dirs (like Downloads) to my new home. I strongly dislike all the dot files and dirs cluttering up my home dir.