Ellen is indeed a lonely child, quietly observing the happiness of other families, yearning to belong, and making mental notes about what her perfect family should be like.
Frost spends the first day in observation mode, taking mental notes to assess the situation and to devise a plan of action.
However, make a mental note that those members will have their guards up at first when you try to give your support to them.
They were allowed virtually free access to the forts, and made mental notes of everything.
Prior to driving, each competitor walks the course, takes mental notes and develops a strategy to be refined upon subsequent runs.
He was thinking in terms of mental notes.
I have listened to the speeches and made a few mental notes.
Make all these mental notes of the stuff.