7. The touch sensitive computing device of claim 1 , where the gesture recognition module is configured so that upon determination of the recognized gesture, the gesture recognition module causes the touch sensitive display to display verification of the application of the marking to the selected one of the plurality of PIM schemas.
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.