Separate folders in the download one. One for each app. And a separate /home/sync folder with the same app separation folders to safekeep the backups of android apps and DCIM folder.

I have ~/work/code/project-name-1, ~/work/code/project-name-2 or ~/priv/code/project-name-3, but not by language... I only separate work and private repositories.

I have a test folder where I clone various git repisitories, compile programs from source or test some small scripts.

~/repos

I have repos for things I’ve cloned from codeberg or other repositories.

There’s also Nextcloud for files I’ve synced from there.

~/code for code

~/dots for git-backed nix configs

~/.rt for projects compiled locally ("runtime")

~/Screencast for recordings of my screen

I also create a ~/.shrc.bash symlink that points to ~/dots/bash/bashrc that reats ~/dots/bash/*.bash and sources the files

~/.shenv.bash where I keep environment (computer) specific settings

~/Projects which has everything I ever cloned or started. yes, it's getting kind of painful to backup :D

I have one for my git repos that I clone and keep building from source. One for various projects. One for scripts…. And so on

I usually make ~/Packages for various binary packages that I can't add as repos for whatever reason. And ~/Packages/src for stuff I compile myself.

And ~/Games for games.

~/repos

Defaults are good for me but I like mounting my secondary drive to ~/Storage with subfolders media, projects, games

Usually git or development.

Public - for everything im seeding and sharing

Apps - for all app images

Games - for all lutris spam and random failed attempts at installing mods.

/datapool or whatever the array is called for zfs pools, I often do /mail on mail servers, and /www on web servers. Not sure why but it makes it super obvious what's going on when you login remotely

A projects folder, usually. All the other folders at the root of $HOME are created by some application or another (XDG folder creator, applications that don't respect XDG).

I make a YouTube subfolder to be downloaded YouTube videos in, and subfolders for podcasts, but those aren't at the root of $HOME.

I make an ~/all/ directory as a catchall for things that don't fit elsewhere, since ~ is used by so many automatic softwares and config files, I like having a place that only I'll write to.

I also make ~/bin for general use and ~/all/GitHub/ for software I install from GitHub.

Apps (local executables, appimages, etc.), Projects (Work, hobbies), Sync (things I need everywhere), tmp (files I will probably delete sooner than later), and Data. Also Vaults and Boxes, only if I need them.

A gits dir and a dir called "wd". Short for working dir.

Its a dumpfest of scripts, tomls, yamls, directories galore. The gits dir is where I keep my cmdb, that one is organized. wd is like a playground where I allow myself not to give a shit

~/Scripts for any bash or python scripts
~/Gits for any repos I clone
~/Projects for any projects im working on (not organized by programming language, but I do have some dirs called zig, go, etc., for when im learning a new language and want to make some projects for learning purposes)

Most other files go into ~/Documents if they don’t have a home already, or don’t fit into the above directories

I have internal RAID1s that store at least two directories apart from any OS or home dev.

../repos ../misc

Misc contain timestamp fstabs, mdadm.conf, rust/python/apt user-inatalled package names, among other notes and small files.

I also sync my master org directory between my documents snapshots and the repos dir

Outside of some folders I made specifically because an app required it, I have a "games" folder for most of my games and a ".lutriswine" folder to have Lutris use a different directory from Wine.

projects, games, and programs are the non default folders in mine

You gotta have your ~/ashdkeuh/

I don't, on most machines, which are servers of some sort. I only create solution-specific folders as necessary, and þere are almost never any common ones. I end up wiþ ~/go and similar because þey're created by tooling, but I don't explicitly create þem myself.

For my PCs, I've been carrying forward my ${HOME} for over a decade. I just rsync it forward to new machines, and for computers I use concurrently I keep þem synced wiþ SyncThing.