>>109101990
>The one kinda different thing I do is put all the programming stuff I'm actively working on in a folder called "prog"
The standard is "Projects"

I have my own top level hierarchy but 99% of the stuff I hoard is organized and accessed using dedicated software; e.g. calibre, beets, hydrus, etc
I only use ~/Documents to store my notes and ~/Music for current projects. I also have a ~/Build directory to compile random shit from internet.

>>109102034
That makes a lot more sense

>>109102070
I always worry about using some specific software to organize files, because what if I want to switch software, or that software is no longer being actively developed? I feel much more confident that the file directory system will last longer

I don't know how they thought making two default folders start with the same letter was a good idea (Documents, Downloads). Makes it a bith to autocomplete.

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>>109101990
by media type and purpose, with short names that have different first letters as much as possible
makes it really fast to navigate on cli with tab completion
some of my categories have some overlap, but it works well enough

audio - audio files
code - code libraries i've developed
data - experimental data
download - temporary directory for downloads
file - office documents, broken down into more specific stuff
game - games
hardware - hardware related projects and specsheets
image - image files
project - code and data files for specific personal and work projects
research - journal articles and reference management system
school - classwork
text - text files and pdfs of books
utility - scripts and such to manage my system
video - video files
web - my website and admin tools for it

>>109102070
> using dedicated software for hoarding is just outsourcing your autism

>>109102448
> muh autocomplete woes

just rename one to `dl` like a normal person

>>109101990
I have the default folders and a repos/ directory where I put repos.

That's it really.

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>>109101990
I use 4chan naming scheme where appropriate. Then put relevant guides, info, inspiration, memes, media collections etc in according to the topic.

Eg I'd put my travel photos in /travel/, decor/project inspiration in /diy/, my music collection in /music/. I also put general "I think this looks interesting" pics into the /art/ folder, split into the aesthetic name (eg, "y2k-futurism") if I can identify it.

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>>109101990
Nothing special

>>109101990
I try to keep everything inside standard default folders so its easier to run syncthing between desktop, server and macbook.

>>109101990
it's a fucking mess just like my home that im going to totally fix tomorrow

I want to change Documents to something without a two initial conflict, need to think of something fitting

>>109103697
What's in your suckless folder?

>>109105006
dwm and dwmblocks

>>109102448
>>109104981
It's maybe not the prettiest solution, but I just switch the first letter's case between Downloads and docs. I leave Downloads with the uppercase cause browsers/other programs like to autocreate that directory

>>109102034
No, it's "Workspace".
>>109101990
I try to minimize it's usage. It exists for me to store files temporarily. So that finding them is faster than digging in the downloads folder etc.
It's 2026, concepts from early windows OS are very outdated.

>>109105639
I mean, your files have to go somewhere. Do you use third-party programs to organize stuff like >>109102070 ?

>>109101990
I've given up organizing it because random programs will just shit all over it anyway.

>>109105716
I do fucking hate that. Zotero I gave a pass to only because I use it enough and I specifically rsync the folder between my different devices so I don't have to use their online sync system

I pretty much use the default since that's how most software expects it to be. I also have ~/scripts, ~/Software for software projects and a folder synced to my preferred cloud service.

>>109101990
very similar to yours
my xdg directory names are doc, music, vid, dl, img
i also have prog (actually separate partition) and it has a subdir for each language. prog/build for other people software

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>>109101990
I have my other drive mapped as a folder, git, syncthing (for my keepassxc vault) and a games folder for lutris prefixes and games/applications

By topic and fine tune with tags.

>>109106556
How do you tag files?

i dump all of the project's i've git cloned into .a so they don't get picked up by baloo when indexing

>>109101990
I try to leave ~/ as default as I can. The only directory I create in there is Applications for app images.

>>109105639
~/Workspace, ~/Projects, and ~/Templates all are different use-case. I mention ~/Templates specifically to illustrate this. ~/Workspace is where your currently unpublished/unreleased/WIP "projects" might ought to begin, ~/Projects where from your ~/Templates ruminate, so that you can have copy-paste/

git init

boilerplate there, and ~/Projects for the finished versions you could be updating. if you really wanted to idiomatize this workflow, ~/Projects would be the source for ~/Workspace and you would empty ~/Workspace as soon as you're done, using symlinks or moving files around as you need. except either of these workflows is too heavy and I just do everything that isn't in ~/Templates in ~/ or a temporary directory somewhere in ~/

>>109101990
Same as Windows.
Everything in the Download folder

I make a directory ~/my-username and put ALL of my shit that I care about into there. that is the only directory I back up. I have a script in there to symbolically link configs and shit to where software expects them to be.

>>109105639
>No, it's "Workspace".
no, its Projects
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/work_items/3
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/merge_requests/24/diffs

>>109101990
I don't, I left it be its own garbage dump for software configs/"assets" and create a "Personal Vault" subdirectory where I place media files and such (usually a mount to something else, a secondary drive, NAS, another partition/subvolume). The only ones I keep are Downloads, and Pictures/Screenshots, because shitty made software like Slack breaks if they aren't set up to save stuff there.

>>109110128
My opinion >>> opinions of random people.
It's "Workspace", because it's been like that way before a bunch of fags decided to add a "Projects" folder.
>>109108711
If I have a finished version of something, I would keep it in my cold storage and in some remote repo, not in an arbitrary folder on a Loonix desktop LMAO.
You use "Workspace" and then you may have something complex going on inside, like "old projects" that you kinda want to keep just in case, but don't work on actively anymore etc.