How to separate new loot?

[mabnp]

This is how my bag looks (items which I use regularly or which could be useful):

When I get new loot it's tricky to find out where is it and what to throw away. I usually throw away most of the new items and there are many because of mythic plus.

Right now the two visible categories are: "mygear" (left) and soulbound (right). I used to assign "mygear" to stuff that I want to keep for long time but it doesn't work with all the warforging - all the items with the same name land there and I still have to browse them. Additionally when I finally get an upgrade and I get rid of the old item I often forget to remove the category. And when I loot it again - it lands in the wrong section.

Ideally I'd like to have some category with "soulbound items looted recently" which I have to manually promote to other category and only a specific combination of ilvl+socket+other bonuses would be assigned there.

I tried using sorting by item age but it does not use the time of when the item was received but rather the time when it was put into the bag - so when I unequip something that I had for a long time it is put next to recently looted items.

The question is - what is the best way to easily see new loot or have it separated from "the gear"?

[arkayenro]

you want to use an equipment manager. the inbuilt blizzard one is fine for this purpose

setup your equipment sets for however many you need

create a rule called "My Gear" with "outfit( )" as the function - without the quotes assign that rule to a bar enable the rule

all your gear will now end up in that bar. when you replace an item it will be removed from the bar.

you could then create other rules (with a higher priority numbers) to pull our your equipable soulbound gear, and then another your equipable boe's

see https://github.com/arkayenro/arkinventory/wiki/RuleFunction for all the rule stuff

[mabnp]

Ha, didn't know about outfit(). That might work! Thanks!

[Bachsau]

I would also recommend sorting equipment by item level. That way you always know what to throw away, since everything placed after a worthless item can only be worse. I wished this would work for portions and food, too, but it doesn't because you would need to scan the description.

[Diagonet]

Somewhat related to the question here but why doesnt the New Items category work? Shouldnt it place all the new looted items into the bar I assign it to?

[arkayenro]

it should do, but only for however long its configured for. i think i defaulted it to 5 minutes but you can change it to anything

[Diagonet]

I assign it to a bar like other groups and it doesnt seem to work