I just started using Drupal today and I couldn't help but notice (or I'm blind) there is no way to add a sub directory style URL besides using an alias. I want to have a category, for example, named "lessons" and then the next part of the URL would be the title of the lesson.
e.g. http://www.example.com/lessons/lesson1
It just seems like there should be a better way to accomplish this rather than using aliases manually. So my question is, is there a way to do this without aliases? I mean automatically so when I add new content (an Article), I can select the appropriate category it should be in. Thanks