Previous Fallouts had you dropping everything you collected into one big pile (personal stash).

Your loadout and anything you want to keep on hand is part of this pile. This means when you fill up or visit your base to lighten your load, you have to sort through the 100+ items that will remain while culling your newly acquired loot.

Here's hoping that we have a "stash bag" where everything picked up is held until it's sold, broken down or moved to your personal stash or container.

The ability to tag an item in your stash with a star or something would be handy in a similar way.

Yeah, having to individually place every alchemical ingredient I happened to pick up in a container after each adventuring trip was, to quote captain blackadder, about as fun as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

A good start would be to mark certain items as essential. Namely your loadout and certain consumables like Stimpaks. These wouldn't appear in your the seller inventory any longer.

But yeah to sort items by the time you looted and by value would be very helpful.