Originally Posted by
Altair6
It's a while since I played with the options in Buffbars but I'm pretty sure you can split the bars so you don't just get one long list. For example you could have one block that is just self buffs and another, separate, block that is just debuffs and etc. Basically make a series of new Effects Windows that have different types of effects in each. So at least then you'd know which block to look at for the effect you were interested in.
Other than that there's a section, which you may know about, at the bottom of the Effect Window tab in the options that lets you change the colours of different classes of effects but that's all you can do I think. That's why poison is green (fear is purple).