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The 67-year-old has jotted down every haircut for over 20 years, a rare personal history of the ebbs and flows of inflation during a period of patchy - and at times unreliable - official data.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023

She has jotted down notes in hopes of publishing a children’s book that could empower young women.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

She says she won’t be writing a new book, nor writing a script, but has jotted down ideas for a story line for someone else to craft.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2017

Most recently he has been living and working in the tower of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, mainly putting together the notes which he has jotted down during ocean voyages and waits in railway and air terminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has shown me a note-book in which he has jotted down directions and distances from water.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford