Feature Request: Custom Repository Folders for Better Organization

[KostantinHruzynskyy]

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Question

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Profile

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Hello GitHub,

I would like to suggest a feature that would allow users to organize their repositories into custom folders or categories within their GitHub account.

As the number of repositories grows, managing and navigating them becomes increasingly difficult. While Topics, Organizations, and filters are useful for discovery and search, they do not provide the same intuitive visual organization that folder-based structures offer.

For example, users could create folders such as:

Project/
project-a
project-b

Web Development/
website-1
website-2

Automation/
script-1
bot-1

This would make it much easier to:

Organize repositories by subject, technology, or purpose.
Quickly locate projects without relying on search or filters.
Maintain a cleaner and more structured profile.
Improve productivity for developers managing a large number of repositories.

Ideally, folders would be fully customizable and available only as an organizational layer, without affecting repository URLs, ownership, permissions, or existing workflows.

I believe this feature would significantly improve repository management for many developers and teams.
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I am not sure whether this feature has already been discussed, requested, or evaluated in the past. If it has already been addressed, or if there are technical or design reasons why it cannot be implemented, I apologize for bringing up a duplicate topic.

I simply wanted to share an idea that I believe could improve repository organization for users who manage a large number of projects.

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Thank you for considering this suggestion

[EgglezosHub]

GitHub does not have real folders for profiles yet, but there is a workaround you can use right now. You can use GitHub Stars and Lists. Just star your own repositories, and then you can organize those stars into custom Lists with whatever names you want. It basically works exactly like the folders you said. Fingers crossed they add real profile folders someday, but hopefully the Lists trick helps you organize things for now

[KostantinHruzynskyy]

@EgglezosHub Thank you for your answer, I tried using the like/bookmark system but at least for me is still kinda messy, I also hope they will implement folders system, it will be soo cool, having everything perfectly organized.
Thank you for your answer <3