That's close-ish to what I do, which is to have symlinks for frequently used directories in my home directory. And as most of those directories are actually on

That's close-ish to what I do, which is to have symlinks for frequently used directories in my home directory. And as most of those directories are actually on an NFS server, setting up a new PC is just mount the server, create the symlinks and then "cd someproject" or "cd ~/someproject' as usual (well, as long as you make sure you use the same UID/GID anyway).