Storage issues, seems like a few easy fixes could help

[Mhaeric]

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.

I used to do this too, but putting everything in it's proper place became an exercise in tedium. I find it much more sanity inducing now to just right-click once on each item to add them to the retainer and then right-click on any item in the retainer once to sort the retainer. The sorting is actually pretty close to what I had already sorted it as, which was a bonus. The only thing significantly different is that the 'page breaks' don't line up with the item types, and for me that is such a minor inconvenience compared to having to manually place every item on its desired page.

I know there's also manual sorting, but I haven't played around with it yet. If it works with the retainer, then it would be something pretty easy to macro so you can have your own custom sort at the click of a button. The no page break thing would still exist, but you could get the items in the order you want.