All downloaded files go to huuge ~/Downloads. Files to be preserved are then moved to more appropriate location. From time to time I delete oldest and biggest f

All downloaded files go to huuge ~/Downloads. Files to be preserved are then moved to more appropriate location. From time to time I delete oldest and biggest files from Downloads. Photos and videos go to Personal folder organized by year and event (ie. 2018/Cristmas). Web development is in /var/www, /var/node per-project. NetBeans projects in default location Company stuff to $companyName/documents $companyName/projects etc. Documents that are related to specific point in time are prefixed with YYYY or YYYYMMDD. Documents that are subject to change are siffixed by v1, v2... Movies go to movies folder, ebooks and audio books to books folder - organized per-title. Music goes to music folder in artist/album structure. Disk images, install packages go to Install folder. Personal documents are just a messy Documents folder. Symlinks are used when data is stored in other location than it belongs to (ie. due to size or fixed path requirements) I have few tmp folders where is stuff that I can afford lose at any time (but I am too lazy to delete) I backup all important folders with rsync to remote location.