# The Academic Problem: mega-thread to come up with a solution **URL:** \ **Category:** Workbook/Workshop\ **Created:** [May 24, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/the-academic-problem-mega-thread-to-come-up-with-a-solution/1492 "2024-05-24T05:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![theTisch21](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/thetisch21/32/670_2.png) [@theTisch21](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/theTisch21)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/the-academic-problem-mega-thread-to-come-up-with-a-solution/1492/51 "2024-10-01T00:54:27Z")
I’ve got two ideas to add to the pile: # 1 Would it make more sense to group things across classes/years rather than isolate classes? Example: ```txt 10-19 Classes 11 Class meta/syllabi 11.01 Class 1 Syllabus 11.02 Class 2 Syllabus 12 Class notes 12.01 Class 1 notes 12.02 Class 2 notes 13 Big projects 13.01 Class 1 Project 1 13.02 Class 1 Project 2 13.03 Class 2 Project 1 ``` This would also reduce the overhead of tracking individual class numbers, and make it so that all your recent projects are right there in front of you. I could see this being a limit if you have more than 100 big projects, but if that happens you could create another category or keep going at `AC.100`. I’ve never needed more than 7 IDs in a class, and most of those are the syllabus and notes. Considering only the big projects, I could easily fit them into 20-30 IDs across the 2 years I’ve had. # 2 Since IDs can and should be big ([22.00.0069: What is an ID?](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/22-00-0069-what-is-an-id/1696)), if it’s possible to fit a class into 10 IDs, what about: `AS.CI`: Area Semester Class ID ex. `12.11` == Area 10 (classes), Semester 2, Class 1, ID 1 Keeps things vanilla-like and compact while still containing the same information as `SX.C.ID`, and can fit 9 classes a semester and 9 semesters (leaving 0 for meta) into a single area. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/the-academic-problem-mega-thread-to-come-up-with-a-solution/1492)._