yes and no;
I "hoard" ideas and articles because it's a good way for me to offload them from my brain
As a designer, I absolutely DO scroll through my swipe files once in a while to get inspiration; sometimes I'll also go through saved github repos to borrow an implementation
E.g. that's how I ended up using a lot of libraries like Immer, Svelte, ended up loving Observable / d3js, etc.
Idk about all y'all, but notes are absolutely useful for me.