A reference usually makes sense to the person who saved it. The harder moment comes when someone else asks about it.
In a review, the questions are predictable. Where is this from? What did the earlier version look like? Why this one and not the other?
If only the image was saved, the answers are somewhere else: in a browser history, in a chat, or in a folder nobody has opened for weeks.
What Hive Saves
When you save through the share sheet, Hive stores the link with the image. You can write a note in the same step, which takes one sentence.
Tags, stars, and comments can be added then or later. Comments are useful for a detail that's easy to miss, such as the way a handle meets a door.
Notes belong to the item as a whole, and they're the place for a price, a supplier's name, or the reason you kept something. After a large import you can select several items and edit their notes together. Longer writing can go in a text document inside the library, which supports Markdown.
Earlier versions can stay in the same folder as the current choice. Hive doesn't ask you to delete what you've moved on from.
Getting a Set Ready
Stars are the quickest way to build a shortlist. Go through a project folder, give the strong candidates a few stars, and filter by rating to see only those. Anything that no longer fits can lose its stars and stay in the folder.
On iPad, the set can be looked at side by side, and an image can be marked up with Apple Pencil while you talk about it.
Slideshow presents the set full screen, without exporting it. If the review happens at a table, the iPad can be handed across. A slideshow can also be exported when you need to send it.
When Someone Asks
A review goes well when the next question can be answered without leaving the set.
Where did this material come from? The supplier's page is attached to the reference.
What did the earlier version look like? It's in the same folder.
Why this finish and not the matte one? The note written on the day you saw the sample says so.
Hive doesn't make any of these choices. It keeps what you already knew within reach for the moment you have to say it out loud.
Before the Review
How a review goes is mostly settled before it starts, in the few seconds when each reference is saved. Hive uses those seconds to keep the link, and leaves room for one sentence about why.