Looking for a way to tag inventory items

Danikat
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Please read the post before replying so you understand what I'm looking for. I know about the option to mark items as junk, but don't want to use it for this because of the increased risk of selling them.

I've been thinking about why inventory management takes me less time in Guild Wars 2 than in ESO (it's certainly not that I have fewer items overall, or fewer new ones to sort). I've come to the conclusion that one big factor is GW2's grid inventory allows me to keep stuff I already had and want to hold onto clearly seperate from new drops I need to sort out. Items I'm holding onto are either at the bottom of my inventory (mainly in an invisible bag) or in the bottom row of the top bag, for easier access but still distinct from new acquisitions (because I know anything in that row is something I already had).

Whereas in ESO after the very first time I look at my inventory, where the new items are at the top with a special icon, they all get mixed together. So unless I keep checking as I'm playing and remember everything I get (which won't happen) when I get back to town and I'm sorting my inventory I need to check each category for things which shouldn't be there, which will be mixed in among the ones I want to keep.

What I'm looking for is an addon which will let me tag or otherwise seperate items I will want to remove (bank, sell, decon etc.) from ones I want to keep and then see all the tagged items together later on so I can quickly sort through just those instead of looking through everything in my inventory.

Does anyone know if there's an addon which allows me to do that?
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  • Soarora
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    FCO item saver, it’s enhanced my inventory management majorly. There’s a different one that lets you make your own categories but I found it more difficult to set up.
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  • Danikat
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    Soarora wrote: »
    FCO item saver, it’s enhanced my inventory management majorly. There’s a different one that lets you make your own categories but I found it more difficult to set up.

    I finally got around to trying FCO and it seems much more complicated than I was looking for, but I think by disabling most of it and changing the settings I may be able to get to what I'm looking for.
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  • Soarora
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    Danikat wrote: »

    I finally got around to trying FCO and it seems much more complicated than I was looking for, but I think by disabling most of it and changing the settings I may be able to get to what I'm looking for.

    Yeah its a pretty big addon. I mostly use it for auto banking motifs gained on alts/auto bank extra gold, auto sell things, mark things for deconstruction, and mark things for guild store selling. Makes deconstruction way faster being able to filter my inventory to only see the items I want to deconstruct.
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  • Danikat
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    I just want 1 tag I can put on items which will keep them at the top of my inventory or otherwise let me find them quickly so when I get to the bank or a merchant I don't have to search through everything to find the ones I want to sell/bank/whatever.

    I'll know what I want to do with them when I see them so I don't need a ton of different icons, it's just annoying that by default stuff I don't want to hold onto is mixed up with stuff I do want to keep.

    Edit: I think it's working though. I set it up so anything new I pick up gets an icon next to it, did my crafting writs, removed the 'new' icon from materials and clicked the icon at the bottom of my inventory to filter for marked items and now I've got a list of just the new stuff without all the things which are always there.
    Edited by Danikat on July 21, 2023 6:11PM
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  • Beilin_Balreis_Colcan
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    That's interesting. I installed FCO Item Saver months ago, and only to use its item saving feature, i.e. so I could lock items and protect them from being accidentally deconstructed or sold. I'll have to revisit its settings, I think, to see what else I could do with it.
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  • Baertram
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    You can use dynamic icons of FCOIS to set the marker icon with a custom name and look, filter them and mass mark/demark them, protect them at the same time.
    Protection can be configured to your needs, so that for example the "new" marker von will protect all, and the "gear to sell" marker won't protect selling at guildstore, etc.

    FCOIS, in combination with other addons like CraftStore, can also mark new looted items for research or simply mark new set items to keep/sell/decon based on their trait, etc.
    Or apply marker Icons to new gained set items which were not in your set collections yet (even binding them can be done).

    The 'new' marker icon can be used for your use case as you explained already.

    If you setup FCOIS to apply different marker icons to your items it will be able to filter them at the different panels, so that deconstruction only shows deconstruction marked ones, or gold store sell tab only shows guild store sell marked ones, etc.

    It got many features and automatisms which make inventory handling easier, and saves your items the same time.

    Together with DoItAll you can even mass decon/refine/extract with 1 click/keybind without having to fear loss of items.
    Edited by Baertram on July 22, 2023 10:39PM
  • Danikat
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    Just in case anyone is looking at this for a solution to the same problem: I ended up uninstalling FOC because all it was really doing was slightly changing the steps I had to go through, I don't think it actually made sorting my inventory any easier.

    The main problem was that if I already had something and then picked up more of the same (say for example I had rubedite ore in my inventory and mined some more) that stack got marked as new, even though it wasn't really. So I had to click to filter my inventory for new items, but then still had things I wanted to keep mixed in with ones I wanted to bank, sell etc. and had to go through the list 1 by 1 to sort it and untag the stuff I wanted to keep.

    There were other issues as well. The important thing is I was (and still am) looking for a way to make sorting my inventory faster and that just made it different but just as fiddly as before.
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