Quote Originally Posted by Mhaeric View Post
One retainer is gear, materia, and unique items. The other retainer is crafting materials. As for finding items in your retainer, sort is your friend. The default sort is useful enough since it groups materials by type. I.e. all ores together, all logs together, all lumber together, etc.
I don't like using sort, but I have a very similar setup. One retainer is gear, materia, and food ingredients, the other is crafting materials.

First 2 pages of each is reserved for stuff that's going to be sold, hides to be made into leather, junk in limbo, etc.

Crafting retainer has 3 pages for metals/bones/stones, 1 for lumber and leather, 1 for alchemy, 1 for cloth stuff.