[slaughtr]

> One question is what if 10/11 gets more than ten items, so there is an 10/11/11, 10/11/12?

I’m not following this (and thus, I think, your entire point). I think you might be slightly misunderstanding something, the files inside a category(11-core in the example) would never have a prefix other than the category - 10/11/11 is the only option - 10/11/12 would be breaking the system.

Once you’re inside a category, there is no division into 10 anymore. The 11 category would allow documents from 11.01 to 11.99. And as I believe is mentioned in the spec, if you need more than .99 you likely have too broad of a category or area.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used this system at work and in my own notes for around 2 years and haven’t run into this problem (yet).

[kazinator]

OK. So if the 11 category can go to 99, why can't the top level just go from 00 to 99 as well without being broken into batches of 10 requiring another level.

[chipsa]

Because most of the time the 11.99 is in a date series. So, the 11.01 item is probably not referred to much, and it's easy to zip down to stuff you're doing now. But 100 subfolders are too much to actually go looking through, especially if you're trying to `ls` the folders.