1. A touch sensitive computing device, comprising: a touch sensitive display configured to receive a touch input; a touch input recognition module configured to receive touch input in the form of a marking so that the marking is displayed via the touch sensitive display; a gesture recognition module configured to recognize from the touch input a recognized gesture from a plurality of predefined gestures; a character recognition module configured to recognize alphanumeric characters from the marking upon recognition of the recognized gesture; and a personal information management (PIM) module including a PIM database, the PIM module configured to apply the marking to a selected one of a plurality of different PIM schemas of the PIM database and to save the alphanumeric characters into the PIM database as a searchable item associated with the selected one of the PIM schemas, the selected one of the PIM schemas being selected based on the recognized gesture.
8. The touch sensitive computing device of claim 1 , where the plurality of PIM schemas include one or more of a calendar item, a task item, and a contact item.