It'd be really useful to be able to use the logistical sorter to sort unstackable items such as weapons, armor and enchanted books. I found this issue from 2014 and saw your objection to being able to simply type in an item without first having to have the item to hand.

Therefore my suggestion is a little different, rather than a text box, would be possible to have a Finder class that takes a reference ItemStack from the inventory similar to the way the ItemStackFinder does, but instead storing the ItemStack itself for comparison, instead looks up the registry name for it (i.e. minecraft:bow) and then uses that value to find all vanilla bows, or minecraft:enchanted_book to find all enchanted books? That way it should be possible to get the best of both worlds.

This might be related to #4694 in which the functionality to ignore damage values if there are no subtypes (i.e. vanilla bows) is restored.

This request has been added to the master list at #5320

In order to keep issue numbers under control this issue will be closed and used as future reference.