My sister uses many different kinds of needles. She is way more organized than I am and uses many different types of needles. She made a needle book for sewing machine needles (Bernina has the pattern). Here's the best
photo of a similar one that I could find.
In any case, she added a little plastic sleeve to her machine (glued on). When she takes the needle out of the package and puts it into her machine, she put a piece of paper into the sleeve that indicates size and type of needle currently in the machine before she does anything else.
Plastic sleeve
example
This is what I
use. I put used needles through a piece of wool and it sits on the top of the compartment.