in the beginning, when you're not so perfect into things, you do nice actions. as me. cut and strip 10+ cables in a panel, then realized i cut all cables without transferring the marks to the stripped phases....... 10 pieces of cables on the floor, now go puzzling...
this was a panel for production hall lighting, so we just hung a phase onto a breaker, switched on, looked which lights were on, switched off and marked...