jottings

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The text, however, evokes a stack of index cards with jottings from an indefatigable researcher unbound by historical limits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

He was due to be sentenced on Thursday at Wood Green Crown Court, which had received a letter Judge David Aaronberg KC described as "jottings and scribblings on a piece of paper".

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2022

His printed draft had whiteout and other jottings indicating clearly it was not a final version.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020

Gould’s jottings, mostly in black felt-tip pen, are not always legible.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2018

He never wrote out fair copies of these jottings for me, fugitive as were the marks and impossible of interpretation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson