Funny, like the author I also have a 'desktop not icloud' folder but I just call it 'scratch' If you opt-in to the iCloud personal folder mirroring feature it

Funny, like the author I also have a 'desktop not icloud' folder but I just call it 'scratch' If you opt-in to the iCloud personal folder mirroring feature it will move your Desktop folder into the cloud. This gets kinda troublesome if you are the kind of person who uses your desktop as a scratch space for random crap. I now have a ~/scratch folder for this. I also added a ~/screenshots folder and used the app Onyx to change where macOS saves screenshots. Now I get the best of both worlds.