Version information before post title?

I have a section on my site for guitar lessons and hardware how-tos, and one of the things that looks a little ho-hum is adding [Lesson] in the title, or [Repair] (etc) to denote what the post content actually contains.

The version dropdown for the hack entry here would be absolutely perfect for what I'm looking to do - just add that as a text option before the thread title, rather than including it in the title of the post itself.

Is there a hack/howto out there that'd explain how to accomplish this? I tried searching on it but mostly returned people looking for the full hack-post style writeup. I'm not looking for checkboxes or anything like that - just adding to a single forum a "type" dropdown that would display before the thread title.

Thanks in advance.