[jrmann100]

These are clever strategies!

I'm too lazy to move things out of ~/Downloads, so I've just started using the folder as my default working directory and struggle to clean it out every quarter or so. /tmp (or probably ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems for my account only) being cleaned out on every reboot would force me to be more intentional.

[abathur]

I collapse the crufty locations down onto my desktop. It doesn't really stop me from treating it that way, but it means there's only one place to clean up, and creeping icon sprawl eventually forces me to deal with it semi-regularly (instead of letting it slide until it's time to wipe the device...):

    $ ls -ld ~/{Desktop,Documents,Downloads}
    lrwxr-xr-x    1 abathur staff   24 Apr 19  2020 /Users/abathur/Desktop -> /Users/abathur/Downloads
    lrwxr-xr-x    1 abathur staff   24 Apr 19  2020 /Users/abathur/Documents -> /Users/abathur/Downloads
    drwx------+ 233 abathur staff 7456 May 29 13:56 /Users/abathur/Downloads

[fragmede]

yeah. anything I can just redownload later I shove in downloads, anything I create or can't likely be redownloaded easily goes to documents