What do you do with a genealogy find when you don't yet know who it belongs to?
I've been reading some of the previous discussions here about organising research, but I'm interested in one particular bit that I haven't really found an answer to.
Say you find a newspaper article, census entry or other record for John Smith. You already have several John Smiths who could possibly be the person in the record, but you don't have enough evidence yet to decide. Or he could be another John Smith you haven't identified before.
What do you actually do with that record in the meantime?
Do you create another temporary John in your family history software, put it in a spreadsheet/database, save it somewhere to investigate later, or something else?
I'm particularly interested in how people deal with this if they have a lot of same-name people, or are doing one-name/one-place studies where you can collect a lot of names and records quite quickly.
I'm not looking for the “correct” method. I'm curious what people actually do in practice.