How do you manage Playlists on a manually managed iPod Classic?

I'm going to get an iPod Classic since I have a huge music collection.
Most of this music is not in iTunes, and won't fit on my computer.
I have read that I can set iTunes to "Manually manage music and videos" for the device.
Then I can simply drag and drop music onto the iPod from the Finder (e.g. from an external drive).
But I also want Playlists on the iPod.
(Not the songs in iTunes on some playlist -- just the listing of some songs.)
Can I compose playlists (that reference the MP3 files I am downloading) in some fashion,
and then drag them over to the iPod, and have it recognize them as playlists for the music
files that I have dragged onto the iPod?
I am imagining this would involve creating/editing some XML files with some magic names
or extensions and dropping them onto the iPod.  (Or, when I do this "Manually manage..."
thing and go into the device via Finder, will I see a folder there named "Playlists" or something?)
Something like that?
How do you manage Playlists on a manually managed iPod Classic?
(I'm on Mavericks on the computer, of course.
I could boot Windows or Linux if needed.)

I have just found out how to do this:
Connect your iPod:
Under DEVICES you will see an arrow (on the left hand side, next to your IPod. If you are unable to display your songs the arrow will be pointing to the right. By clicking on this arrow it will point down, all of your songs will appear. Under Preferences uncheck Auto Sync then you can manually add / delete.

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