Hi @dpdesigns, I just wanted to let you know that our latest feature, picking and filtering favorites (link) was inspired by this feature discussion!
We tried numbering the designs, which worked okay until you start deleting or re-ordering designs. Then you remembered a number, but maybe a deletion or re-order meant that now a different design had that spot (and thus number) in the list.
At the same time, I was experimenting with an option to pick favorites. This worked well, but once I added filtering by favorites, the numbering solution really started to give confusing results!
So, in the end I decided to drop the numbering and do that favoriting only.
What this feature will solve for you
- If you have designs that look alike, but there’s a favorite, you can easily find that one now.
- Exporting also becomes easier, because it can simply only export those you’ve favorited
What this feature won’t yet solve for you
- If you have a few designs that are similar but all relevant, they are still hard to keep apart
- There is not another way to keep track of designs beyond the favorite/not-favorite split
- When exporting, you can’t easily see which pattern you are currently work with
Things we may do in the future
- Currently, designs do not have a “selected” state when clicked. This is because you cannot edit a design itself: you can make changes and save as a new design. If and when we find an elegant solution for selecting and editing existing designs, keeping track of which one you are exporting will also become easier. (Why do we not have this yet? We tried this and often ended up accidentally making changes to existing designs. So, we first need a solid and intuitive interface solution for this before we can go down this path)
- Apart from favoriting, you can imagine different kinds of “labels” you could add to design. For example color labels, that you could assign your own meaning too. Mark all your “maybe’s” in yellow, mark all designs for your mug in blue and for the shirt in red, etc.
So, that’s a little background story to our design process and thinking 
If this sparks any ideas or questions, let me know, I’m curious to hear!