The time it takes to unlock and open the app is a major issue. It's still much faster than I can write a complete sentence by hand, but slow enough to discoura

The time it takes to unlock and open the app is a major issue. It's still much faster than I can write a complete sentence by hand, but slow enough to discourage me from writing more. I've always thought that a new class of ultra rugged, old Nokia but with apps type device is needed. Maybe some kind of special purpose smaller than a phone digital notebook could solve this. It wouldn't need much computing power at all, since it could do everything via Bluetooth link to a real phone. With a memory LCD the battery would last weeks. For me, I'm so out of practice with pen and paper that I could probably learn a new input method as just easily as I could learn to write without stopping to think about every letter, so maybe even a keychain sized device would be possible.