Provide an option for making artboard names / numbers visible on the artboard (like when editing artboards)
Provide an option in Adobe Illustrator to show artboard names and/or numbers on the artboard / on top of the artboard (like when editing artboards). This visible naming would greatly help to keep artboards organized in large, multiple artboard files. This would be so helpful!
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Beta 30.0.0.21 now offers an option to show the numbers and names for the artboards for any tool chosen.
You can disable this in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display, with Show Artboard name on canvas option.
Yo can also double-click the name and rename the artboard directly on canvas.
This is a very first draft of the feature. Please try this build and share your impressions in comments, to help to guide the development.
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Edu Couchez commented
One of these few things I feel more productive in Adobe’s XD, is the capability to quick move and rename the art boards right from the main view, without taking your hands off the mouse.
In Illustrator, usually it’s two or three clicks away, under menus and tabs, or command keying to change to “art board selecting” tool. By far, those are time consuming breaks in the cognitive process, needing to focus on a repetitive task, specially when you have to manage big projects with more than 20 artboards.