It's confusing to me that it's not already like this.
Signed, I need exactly one iron plate worth of ferrite dust.
@Efi yeah I know but I still don't want to spend more time harvesting than I have to.
@emanate Yeah I found out how to do this, but it doesn't work if I need to harvest a precursor ingredient.
@starkatt There's a compromise for this:
When you're looking at a resource, or a blueprint of tech, you can hit a button to "tag" it, which it should hint at in that screen.
This creates a "mission" specifically to grab the resources for that thing, which keeps an update on what you have in the bottom right of the screen.
Not sure if it works on simple things like metal plates, but hella useful for other tech!