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Er depends. My mining setup is as follows:
1. Sword
2. Pickaxe
3. Pickaxe
4. Torches
5. Shovel
6. 64 cobble
7. bucket of water
8. Food
9. (optional bow)

All the tools?

1-Pickaxe
2-Sword
3-Shovel
4-Dirt
5-Coal
6-Bucket
7-Cobble
8-Empty
9-Empty

Sword
Pickaxe
Shovel
empty
empty
empty
Map
Torches
Bread

1. Pick
2. Lights
3. Sword
4. Bow after my chicken farm has yielded me enough feathers
5. Empty so I can walk around with my polar bear hand out
6. Water bucket
7. Cobble
8. Dirt
9. Food

1. Pick
2. Shovel
3. Sword
4. Dirt
5. Cobble
6. Empty
7. Empty
8. Food
9. Torches

1) 64 Dirt
2) Stone Pick
3) Stone Shovel
4) Stone Axe or Empty
5) Torches or Empty
6) Empty
7) Steak
8) Bow (Arrows not in hotbar)
9) Iron Sword

By "Empty" I mean I leave it open for whatever materials I'm working with.

I have several combinations for differet situations.

Mining Set:

1: Sword
2: Bow
3: Primary Pick
4: Secondary Pick
5: Shovel
6: Torches
7: Solid Block
8: Gravel/Sand
9: Food, primarily steak/porkchops

Combat:

1: Sword
2: Bow
3: Lava bucket
4: Healing splash
5: Regen Splash
6: Poison splash
7: Harming Splash
8: Speed Splash
9: Strength Splash

Exploring:

1: Sword
2: Bow
3: Pick
4: Shovel
5: Axe
6: Solid block
7: Torches
8: Healing splash
9: Empty

Usually its this:

Pick
Sword
Shovel
Torches
Food ( Depends on what I have )
Cobble, dirt or empty
Empty
Empty
Empty

1. Pickaxe
2. Sword
3. Shovel
4. Axe
5. Bow
6. Torches
7. Clock
8. Food (mostly steak)
9. Blocks (often cobblestone)

I tried to make my own design.

1. Sword (Always)
2. Pickaxe
3. Shovel
4-6. Random Blocks (Cobblestone, Crafting Tables, Furnaces, Grass, etc.)
7. Food
8. Food
9. Torches

1. Iron Sword
2. Stone Pickaxe
3. Stone Shovel
4. Stone Axe
5. Minecart
6. Cobblestone OR Dirt OR Water Bucket
7. Food OR Health Potion
8. Bow
9. Torches

1. Infinite stack of TnT
2. Redstone torch
3. Lever
4. Button
5. Redstone
6.Diamond Pick
7. Diamond Shovel
8. Diamond Axe
9. More TnT

Ideally if I am not panicked enough to just forgo planning my bar is like this

1 Dirt or Sand
2 Cobblestone
3 Sword
4 Sword
5 Torches
6 Pick
7 Misc
8 Food
9 Food

from one two nine:
Vech's maps slots:
battlesign
sword
pick
bow
some blocks except for gravel or sand
potion of regeration
bucket
torches
food
Normal Survival:
sword
bow
pick
axe
bucket or any blocks
torches
melons
other food
map

1. Sword
2. Pickaxe
3. Pickaxe
4. Pckaxe
5. Dirt
6. Usually empty
7. Empty as well
8. Food
9. Torches

1. Sword
2. Bow
3. Pick
4. Shovel
5. Axe/Torches
6. Building-blocks (dirt, cobble etc.)
7. Water-bucket
8. Other
9. Food

1-Sword
2-Pickaxe
3-Shovel
4-Cobble or dirt
5-Porkchops:D
6-Bucket
7-Bow
8-Axe
9-Empty

Whilst PvPing:

1. Sword
2. Bow
3. Splash Potion of Health II
4. Splash Potion of Health II
5. Splash Potion of Health II
6. Splash Potion of Health II
7. Potion of Strength II
8. Potion of Swiftness II
9. Food (usually steak)

Whilst mining/doing most other things:

1. Sword
2. Pickaxe
3. Shovel
4. Axe
5. Torches
6. Cobblestone
7. Water Bucket
8. Diamonds :3
9. Food (again, usually steak)

I've gotten really used to this pattern, and it does me well