mental note

1. 1.

   special attention with intent to remember

   “he made a mental note to send her flowers”

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Questions about mental note

What does mental note mean?

mental note means "special attention with intent to remember".

Is mental note a common word?

mental note is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.