There's a little mod called
WhoHas that does the tooltip thing (and only that.) I used it until I got Combuctor. I also recommend
Possessions, if you don't have it already. Say you need 10 Primal Earth, 6 Primal Water and 6 Primal Air for a recipe... just type
/poss primal in the chat box and a popup will shw you all the items you have access to with the word primal in their name, along with where they are.