In a long battle to be more intentional about what I keep around, I wanted ~/ to function both as my desktop and downloads directory, on both macOS and nixos. Using it like this would force me to deal with cruft quickly, and avoid crap silently piling up out of sight until its origin is forgotten (though desktops will hide the .dotfiles; those could still accumulate unnoticed).
It was easy to set this up on nixos, but I found the handful of apps dropping non-hidden files there grating. Magic folder behavior on macOS didn't work as well with this.
I ended up replacing ~/Desktop and ~/Documents with links to ~/Downloads. The naming isn't sensible, but I'm happy with how this works on both systems so far.
In a long battle to be more intentional about what I keep around, I wanted ~/ to function both as my desktop and downloads directory, on both macOS and nixos. Using it like this would force me to deal with cruft quickly, and avoid crap silently piling up out of sight until its origin is forgotten (though desktops will hide the .dotfiles; those could still accumulate unnoticed).
It was easy to set this up on nixos, but I found the handful of apps dropping non-hidden files there grating. Magic folder behavior on macOS didn't work as well with this.
I ended up replacing ~/Desktop and ~/Documents with links to ~/Downloads. The naming isn't sensible, but I'm happy with how this works on both systems so far.