Over the years we’ve used various different applications, methods and strategies to keep track of both core and plugin updates. Having everything in just one place, sitting nicely in the mainWP dashboard, keeps things clear and simple. Also, being able to add sites to different categories helps to streamline our maintenance. We have development, staging and live sites all in separate groups, so we can update all our dev or staging sites and run checks before we update live sites. Just perfect.
We run MainWP on a local server environment and it works a treat, connecting with sites live on the web and locally without issue.
If you’ve not tried it yet, download it and give it a whirl.