MercuryTrade-Community-Fork VS Sidekick

if you trade a LOT, then you might benefit from a dedicated trade manager macro/app like Mercury Trade Community Fork.

[https://github.com/morph21/mercurytrade-community-fork/releases/lateest

If you liked Slimtrade, you could test MercuryTrade Community Fork.

Next, thing: trade. Trade is a big part of the game, and to access you will want to be playing in a Trade league (not SSF - Solo Self Found). Here are the resources you will need to use the trade system: https://poe.ninja/challenge/currency is the "price-checking" tool for currency exchange rates and pricing unique items. (There is no way to reliably price rare items for a new player, unless you know all builds, all item affixes, all crafting mechanics and what is popular at the moment). Although there is almost 50 different currencies (you will want to memorize those), don't let that fool you - the basic "dollars" is the Chaos Orb. Everything you will trade to and from will have to be exchanged into Chaos Orbs. Hundred dollar bills are the "Exalted Orbs", and then "ten thousand dollar bill" is the Mirror of Kalandra. You will need Awakened PoE Trade (https://github.com/SnosMe/awakened-poe-trade), an overlay for the game that lets you quickly check prices of items in-game. Do not attempt to trade without a trade overlay, or you will get assblasted and have a terrible time. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/ is the official search API, that lets you search for items based on a set of criteria. You will be using it constantly to set up alerts on items you are interested in to snipe, or to quickly search an over-priced piece of gear if you are in a rush. The only way to trade is to whisper another player with the information about the item you are interested in and wait for them to respond. It's all done through the in-game chat-window based on text messages. There is no other form of support for trading in this game. That is why we need Awakened PoE Trade, and this next piece of equipment: https://github.com/Morph21/MercuryTrade-Community-Fork will help you manage trades in-game.

MercuryTrade Community Fork may also work well for you.

when I see alch and go requests, its usually not the build, its the tedium of checking map mods itself. in that case might I suggest poe sidekick. Lets you bind a key(i use mouse button) to quickly filter out map mods. Its quite smooth once you get used to it(closing the window with spacebar)

I'm also going to plug my alternative, Sidekick: https://github.com/domialex/Sidekick

I like Sidekick.

You can also just price check with Sidekick, check every mod, and open the generated query in the browser if needed. There's a new version in beta with better visuals.

For me Sidekick is faster and better than Awakened - https://github.com/domialex/Sidekick

No idea, just use a different one. I like Sidekick.

My app Sidekick.

I like Sidekick.