Actually, you don’t want to answer that question at all, if you can help it. At least that’s what our research shows. If you have to stop too long to think about how to organize your jots, then the chances are that you won’t file the jot at all. With jotting at the speed of thought, it’s vital to allow unstructured and unrefined jotting to take place unhindered by questions of organization and filing. ThumbJot allows you to enter notes straight into your pool of jots.

A key advantage of electronic jotting over paper jotting is that you can use electronic search to find your jots again. Moreover, with the ability to enter jots via text message, you can jot ‘blindly’ without having to ‘open’ your jotter in the first place - simply ‘fire and forget’ your jot. Bang! It’s stored for you to think about later.

You can still organize your jots though, as you write them or later, using:

1. Pinboards
2. Tags

Tags

If you want, you can tag jots with any keywords you like, either when you store the note or later. However, if you find the prospect of a completely unstructured jotter too daunting, or you already have an idea of structure, then you can create pinboards. These are areas where you can group jots together under a common topic or heading. It’s up to you how you do this.

Pinboards

The power of pinboards is that you can still add tags to pinned jots. For example, you might jot something on your ‘Biz Ideas’ pinboard, but it’s something that requires an action rather than a reflection, in which case you can tag it as ‘todo’ or ‘action’ or ‘must do’ or however you jolly well please.

Pinboards can be shared, which allows unfettered ‘jotting at the speed of thought’ with anyone else you like. There’s no doubting that for many parts of life, two (or more) minds are better than one. People who trust each other will soon learn to benefit from the joys of unstructured jotting on the same page, so to speak, or the same pinboard. Each sharer can still tag their shared jots privately to give an added dimension of meaning or organisation to their shared jots. Tags are not shared on shared jots - the tags remain private.