Not equipping the shovel would help a lot, but the problem will still be there.
If for example I found a new staff and I wanted to compare it to my own, I would usually just double-click it and see everything that changes. If you do that a lot it becomes automatic, and then after a equip a +skill item, remembering which of your items is +skill and not double-clicking other items of that type is very difficult IMO.
