Dear Larry: Are you looking for ideas to help organize sessions based on how others organize? Or are you trying to lobby for ideas on a standardization of session organization?
Keep in mind that muscle memory is a key for my session organization. I’m comfortable scrolling over to different areas of my mixer and edit window where I’ll usually find a certain category of instrument or bus, etc. For example, Echo returns are always at the right for me, and just before them are all the stems and captures.
(hopefully this does not degrade the signal to noise ratio of your post 🙂