title: How can I effectively group a whole bunch of Sharepoint lists?
body: <p>I'm still learning Sharepoint and all of its various concepts, so apologies in advance for my ignorance.  Here's what's going on - my company is moving a whole bunch of forms from another application into Sharepoint as InfoPath forms.  Each InfoPath form is a Sharepoint list.  So, we've got something like 300 different lists representing these forms.</p>
  
  <p>My task is to put these lists on a page in some kind of reasonable format, meaning we need to present them in more reasonably-sized groups.  Essentially, what I think I need is a list of lists.  I've seen a few discussions here on this topic, all of which end with "Sharepoint doesn't provide a list of lists you need to do it yourself".  I attempted to use a Content Query web part, but that only could get me the items <em>inside</em> each list, which in this case isn't what I want - I want the Sharepoint list itself.</p>
  
  <p>From what I've read, it sounds like some custom code can build what I want.  Is there any other way for me to group these lists?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit for more information</strong>: Part of the problem we have is that we aren't sure how to group the lists.  I believe what Tom says below, that it's pretty easy to get a list of all the lists.  But somehow, we still have a need to get the lists into the appropriate buckets.</p>
  
  <p>For example, let's say there are 10 lists, and we want to group them by department.  The first three belong to HR, lists 4-7 belong to IT, and lists 8-10 are Executives.  Even with a custom code solution, we still need to make that connection, and I'm not sure how to do that (easily).  If that's going to be a manual process anyway, it seems like a master list like @strongopinions suggests will be easier than a custom code solution?</p>