Organization

[Conradus]

What system of organization do you all have gong for you? I realized I spend most of my time switching crafting classes to get HQ ingredients for some things and I also spend timing looking for my stuff (I have a rough 'this retainer has that stuff' but it isn't perfect.)

Do any of you have a better system you use to keep organized? Do you take an hour or so and just turn all those steps into parts for later use? (Like making big batches of leather, etc.)

Retainer 1 has equipment and materia
Retainer 2 has expendables (food, medicines, bait, etc) and dyes
Retainer 3 has fish, other food ingredients and stone crafting materials
Retainer 4 has all the other crafting materials.

I don't stock HQ materials because I need them so rarely. HQ materials I get in the course of play get sold immediately. NQ intermediate materials that I'm not buying from an NPC vendor or the Market Board because of expense I generally craft in bulk with Quick Synthesis so I don't have to keep switching classes and just pull what I need from a retainer. Gathered/dropped items that I feel the need to go out and get myself I will spend 30 minutes to an hour gathering to get a stockpile the same as intermediates. When I do buy something from an NPC vendor, I'll usually buy a whole stack of 99. The object is when I need to craft something I can just pull materials from my retainers.

Note that any time the game shows you an item (as a recipe ingredient, as a requirement for a quest or mission, on the Market Board, whatever) you can right-click and select to search for it and it will immediately tell you if you have it and if so, where it is, including your retainers' inventories