PalmPilots were stupid simple to use though. IMHO they were about the height of portable device usability, just enough external buttons that it was possible to pull it out of your pocket and push the desired hotkey all with one smooth motion.

I miss having my todo list on a PalmPilot. Talk about being super organized. When it comes to being organized, today's cell phones are a joke in comparison.

Samsung ALMOST got it correct with the s-pen on the note, but they unpin notes from the lock screen after 10 minutes, and you have to do tap on the note a few times to edit it, you can't just write on the lock screen note with the s-pen.

As an aside, I am incredibly irritated at how Samsung went 90% of the way to making an amazing productivity tool and then dropped the bloody ball. :/

IIRC, the creator of the Palm Pilot carried a block of wood around in his back pocket, pulling it out and imagining going through steps with it to work out the form factor and design of the applications.

Also, I knew someone who continued to use Palm's Windows software as her primary calendar and organization software years after Palm had begun fading away, and despite having never owned a Palm device! It was hard to fault her for it, since it was fast and robust.