The Academic Problem: mega-thread to come up with a solution

Johnny.Decimal University Workbook/Workshop
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Hi all, new JD user here. Currently a professor, recently a grad student.

I thought a lot about this and my main point of concern was trying to decide if I wanted to organize on the level of Academic year/semester > course or Course > Academic year/semester.

The courses I teach are internally numbered by semester (i.e. Course A I, II, III, and IV = 709, 710, 759, 760) so I wouldn’t even necessarily need to break it up into semester. In addition, the sessions are internally labeled by week and instance (e.g. FW 01.02 for second session of the course within fall week 1).

After downloading the quick start life admin pack (and changing some of the category names), I decided (so far) on the following setup:

00 System Meta
//10–19 Home
10 Home Meta
11 Personal
12 Living
13 Finances
14 Digital
15 Fun
//20–59 [Institution]
20 [Institution] Meta
21 [Institution] Admin
22 [Institution] Service
23 [Institution] Research
24 [Institution] Academic Year 2024
    24.709 Course A
        01.01 [Topic Name] //Session 1, in Week 1
        01.02 [Topic Name]
        //No classes in week 2
        03.01 [Topic Name]
        ...
    24.713 Course B
25 [Institution] Academic Year 2025
    24.709 Course A //Repeat of course, but new instance so new ID within new category
26 [Institution] Academic Year 2026
...

This basically uses AC to double as a year marker. I am reserving out until 2059 with my AC.XX, and still have 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, and 90-99 available if necessary.

I’m not sure if I should be labeling my session folders as 24.709.01.01 or just omitting the AC.ID as I have.

It’s my current iteration and a work in progress but I figured I’d contribute!

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