What's the right way to organize podcasts?

I have a question about the best way to keep podcasts. What I do is download podcasts from a few sources. I put them into a playlist (so that they go one after the other and don't require me to press buttons when one ends, which is what happens if I listen to the podcast category directly). I sync them to my iPod and listen on airplane trips. Now, most of them I want to delete, but say every 5th one is one I'd like to keep. So when I get back, I have to remember which one is which and delete them from iTunes. Question one: any way to mark them for deletion from the iPod itself (so that I won't have to remember which out of 50 were the good ones?).
Further, how do I keep them? I want the good ones I've already listened to in one place (e.g., playlist "archived podcasts") and new ones that get downloaded which I haven't listened to in another place (e.g., playlist "airplane content"). I imagine I'm not the only one, so how are people doing this - what's the best way to keep an up-to-date playlist of only the new podcasts, and store the listened-to ones elsewhere?
thanks in advance,
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