How to organize draft posts?

I have a -ton- of draft posts and would like to organize them somehow. When I go into the draft folder, there’s like a hundred posts and it’s really frustrating to scroll through and find what I want to work on.

I used to use edit flow. It added post statuses across the top of the admin “all posts” screen, so instead of “Published, Draft, Pending…” I would see “Published, Draft, Pending, Ideas, Old Junk, In Progress…” Unfortunately, that plugin is long gone.

I’ve tried replacing those statuses with categories. For example, simply filter for a specific category in the posts screen and there you go. It created a lot of overhead work and it wasn’t as easy to use as I would like.

I’ve also used custom post types. Having a custom type for “ideas,” etc. works well. But it’s really not very useful (or friendly) in regards to workflow or when it comes to this kind of organization.

I’ve also tried adding custom post statuses through functions.php. I could get it to work, partially, but in the end the solutions failed. (I do a little PHP stuff now-and-then, but it’s really not my thing.)

Any suggestions for a plugin, a link to ready-to-roll code, etc? I have searched like crazy for something that will allow me to organize my draft posts and have tried a lot of code from various websites, all to no avail.

Thanks!