Jotting [verb]

He has evidently some deep problem in his mind, for he keeps a little note-book in which he is always jotting down something.

On the small platform two journalists in dress-coats and soft hats were jotting down the names of the notabilities who passed by.

Horbury made a hearty breakfast, opening letters, jotting down notes, talking of his plans as the meal proceeded.

Peter Snipe, the novelist, got out a pad of paper and began jotting down impressions.

He drew out a note-book and began jotting down some ideas about the disposition of the five acres surrounding the house.

With his sleeves rolled up, sitting in the quiet of his room, Bartley spent the afternoon jotting down notes for a story.

It may be only the keeping of a diary, jotting down memoranda or writing long letters to his friends, but he will write something.

The adjutant is jotting down the list of casualties in his note-book.

It began with Mother sitting at a table one evening in the early autumn and jotting down figures.

She wished the cook in the next garden to think that she was jotting down a few things that she wished to remember.