Roughly this scheme: ~/dev for any personal project work ~/$COMPANY for any professional work I do for $COMPANY ~/teaching for teaching stuff ~/research for

Roughly this scheme: ~/dev for any personal project work ~/$COMPANY for any professional work I do for $COMPANY ~/teaching for teaching stuff ~/research for academic research (it's a big mess unfortunately) ~/icl for school related projects (where "icl" is Imperial College London) For my PDFs I use Mendeley to organize them and have them available everywhere along with my annotations. I store my books in iBooks and on Google Drive in a scheme roughly like: /books/$topic/$subtopic Usually organizing your files is usually just commitment, move files off ~/Downloads as soon as you can :-)