Organizing Posts According to Category

Is there a way to separate different categories of posts into different areas in a blog? I want something like this…

https://will2real.com/

…so I want to be able to determine which posts go in which column in the blog. The most simple way appears to be to use the category function to determine what goes where, but don’t know how start. Is there a plugin for this or is there a way to hardcode it in to the front page index.php organization?