Is there a way to edit/manage Launchpad?

is there a way to show the apps and a list, mark them into groups, and then move them into folders?
I like the idea of Launchpad, but this isn't my iPad where I have a few apps that I use all the time.
I have approximately 300 apps ... many of them farily useless things that came with packages (e.g. the Adobe utilities that come with Creative Suite, or the updaters that World of Warcraft uses).
Drag and drop takes forever ... you can only move one app at a time. (And dropping an app into a folder that's at the end of a line is a little game all itself.)
And then once they're in the folders, there's no way to tell which is where. I have 5 screens of folders ... and there's a lot of flipping around involved in finding something that I haven't used recently.
It would also be nice to be able to mark some of the folders as "hidden", since they contain apps that I will likely never use.
To be honest, I'm starting to think that this isn't going to work. The Finder's "Recents" lists get me to about 70% of everything I need, and searching Finder windows seems faster than LaunchPad.

Thank you ... unfortunately, I've already used those.
You can't put folders in folders ... so there's no hierarchy. And you can only put ... it looks like 32 files in a folders ... so you need "Folder1, Folder2, etc. for categories."
I've had time to read some other posts, and I think I get it now. The Applications Folder is hard to look at because it has so many entries. And if you create your own subfolders, it messes up some programs.
So ... Launchpad is a collection of aliases.
I think that's a good idea, but right now it's just a big pile of icons. There needs to be a way to organize it ... and the current one-level folder mechanism just isn't sophisticated enough.
So thanks again ... I'm going to just stop trying to use Launchpad and stick with my old way of doing things for now. Maybe Apple will improve it later.

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