A preference is a useful starting point
You might like more shape one day and a looser finish the next. Neither has to become a permanent rule for your hair.
Make comparisons with your own notes
A photo shows a moment. Your own notes can tell you which steps you used and how the routine felt to repeat.
Keep the experiment small
When you want to try something different, choose one change and note it. There is no need to add a whole shelf of new steps at once.
Take it to my routine