Verb
The word is derived from jot
of Jot
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue. Randy Schekman
It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing. Paul Kane
How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling.. Joan Miró
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. Nicolas Cage
He jotted a note to himself: "Ligate pancreatic ducts of the dog. Source: Internet
Agatha Christie's secret notebooks - the private journals in which she jotted down her ideas for stories, shot to fame some years ago, when Harper Collins published John Curran's fascinating book about them. Source: Internet