Best practices for organizing 40+ repositories locally?

[Sagargupta16]

Hey everyone! I have around 48 repositories across personal projects, an organization (MCA-NITW), and open source contributions.

I recently spent time reorganizing them into categories:

• academic/ -- coursework and DSA
• devops/ -- AWS, Terraform, CI/CD
• ml-ai/ -- neural networks, LLM tools, MCP servers
• web-applications/ -- MERN, FastAPI, Next.js apps
• games/ -- Unity Engine projects
• templates/ -- reusable starters (MERN, FARM, AI)
• tools-scripts/ -- automation and utilities
• portfolios/ -- personal websites

I also set up Renovate with monthly grouped updates across all repos to reduce PR noise.

Curious how others manage a large number of repos locally. Do you:

1. Clone everything into one folder?
2. Group by category like above?
3. Use git worktrees for multi-repo workflows?
4. Have scripts to sync/pull all repos at once?

Would love to hear your approach!