| A planner that tells you when and where you're supposed to be, usually a whiteboard with jottings left over from six weeks before. |
| One certainty is that you will not fill the void with personal jottings or reading matter. |
| Less than 200 pages long, the book is peppered with monochromatic reproductions of old photographs and John's paintings, drawings and jottings. |
| Aloof and academic, his book, The Hidden Plot, is essentially a collection of essays distilled from articles, notebooks and jottings. |
| It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently. |
| The book is a series of disjunctive jottings, often compelling in themselves, but not always smoothly related. |
