Creative reference libraries rot. You save things, you forget them. Your aesthetic lives between your eyes and your past work, and re-explaining it every brief doesn't scale.
I run two streams. Trend cards distil external references: one card, one thesis sentence, operative moves. DNA profiles map my own work: every claim cites a real anchor example. Different questions. Don't mash them.
Nothing publishes without passing a HALT gate. No card without a thesis I'd defend. No DNA claim without an anchor I can point to.
Taste is a structured artefact, not a vibe. The gate is the discipline.
//A<3