Right, for me “documents” is just “personal files”. I used to have it called that, but then I just had and empty dir sitting there unused…

I don’t like putting things in home because then files get mixed up with config and cache and crap, and it’s more annoying to search

This is the way. Everything I created in folder in Documents. Everything I downloaded in downloads. Home should be otherwise empty, except for all the left-over dot-folders that old software leaves lying around.

Absolutely. Some under a work subfolder, some under various other sub-folder depending on what they contain.

What do you put in it? For me the logical place for that would be ~/Documents/projects