How do you organize non-book items?

[Devilfish]

I really need to get a move on with 3/4th of the house unlocked, because I keep losing all my good items, and with only 5 inventory slots moving is going to bea nightmare if I don't do it now. Fun as it is to picture a librarian frantically running through the house looking for that bottle of Skinshuck Mead I KNEW I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HAD, it's not practical.

With shelf space at such a premium, how do you organize your items?

[finalwarsystemdeleted]

I was about to ask, (also ask how are people organising their books? by colour, by mystery or name?) I had started organising non-book items in places at the moment that I am not really using, but grouping said items together. So for example, anything that can be brewed and served is being sorted in the Kitchen, pigment and fuel in the Stores, any drinkables that look like health potions in the Infirmary, and remains in the dispensary, etc. by grouping them I kind of know where I put them.

[::Maethendias::]

by rooms

i have library rooms, put the liqors into the doctor room above the cinema, utilize the storage rooms to the fullest and put alot of the more used crafting things in their respective crafting rooms


i also do groups by lore first, and collection second, at least for now ( i have acutally started running out of space on BOTH of the library rooms, so i have started to put the memory "farming" books next to their respective desks too to free up space, still kinda annoying that i didnt find a REAL library room yet)

[Stim The One]

Depends. I have about two things for organizing non-book stuff. Everything of a particular type goes in a room... or more, preferably those that are the same next to each other. I used the room with the barber chair to store beverages, the lab for materials, the autopsy room for remains, kitchen for wood (because I used it more often to make pears than other things), liquids in the room with the medical table, and down in the smithy I put metals, stone... and things needed to make them.

With books, I have my "read these to get memories" books that are all in this one section, closer to the entrance, while the other books get sorted by COLOR. Look, I don't want to separate the volumes of the locksmith's dream. And they look much nicer like that.

[Sasparillafizz]

Rooms dedicated to specific item types for the most part.

Books I've got sorted in order by principal (color) and strength Ground from the Severn Chamber, down below to the Wescott Room and then down to the Reading Room; as they are all atop each other and all have lots of shelves. Every principal gets its own dedicated shelves and sorted by power level.

Got most of my tools down in the Foundry.
Inks and papers sitting on desks in the first couple rooms.
Single use beverages I've in the caretakers lodge, while pourable bottles across all the tables in the Fludd Gallery.
Foodstuffs in the pantry and kitchen.
Samples of all the harvestable flowers in the Dispensery.
Dispensery and Fludd Room bookshelves for random fluid stuffs that are useful for alchemy table.
Candles and talking pets are all in the church adjacent to the Chancels.
Wood logs up next to the wood work bench. Etc.

[kazthefirst]

I organize like this:

--Working library (books I haven't mastered, sorted by level)

--Mastered libraries (rooms with just books I've mastered, one room for each Aspect so I can find them for guests)

--Language-restricted books (a room with every book I can't yet read because of a language)

--Bad Books (room with no other objects than cursed, tainted, infested, etc books. They don't seem to affect each other)

--Drinks and foods(I move things in as space becomes available because there is more stuff in the house than you'll ever use if you are being efficient at all)

--Tools and Inks

--Reagents

--Flowers

I also keep books I read for memories next to the desk for them. Towards the endgame I made a Numen room.

There are a lot of shelf spaces that don't look like shelf spaces, especially in the upper church area, so there might be more room than you think. Window sills are great for storage.