Tape a flag to it and move on, honestly. Trying to come up with some fancy labeling system just adds steps and you'll still have dudes on the crew who ignore it. Mark both ends, take a pic of the run, and stop overthinking it.

Watched a buddy build a deck this way, he laid out all his joists with chalk lines and stakes, stared at it for a week, then moved half of them before cutting a single board. He said the first layout is just you arguing with the yard, the second one is you arguing with the house. Sounds like your garage was doing the same thing, the framing you tore out was your first draft talking.

Heard a podcast say most people argue about it twice a year.