jotting

We’ve all sat across from people on laptops and smartphones and wondered whether they were jotting down bullet points or shopping early Black Friday deals.

The use of such lists goes back to the days of antiquity; for all we know there were well-organized Neanderthals jotting their daily schedules on the walls of caves.

Mr. Ferguson, who was born in Jamaica, was carrying scraps of paper with what police described at the time as “racist jottings” against whites and Asians.

In a night game in Baltimore last month, Sonoda took notes as usual, jotting down pitches types and their locations.

But his quieter teenage traumas and triumphs, the kind that occurred when he wasn’t busy jotting down ideas and making Super 8 home movies, played out on “Dawson’s Creek.”