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But who wants to deal with searching through the UI for pertinent info when you can have several PADDs each attuned to a specific set of data?
I'm more amused by Jake writing his stories on a PADD with a stylus, but you see it and it's all printed text.
Production reason: without a stylus it looks like he's reading, not writing. Without one, dialogue like "I'm writing a book" would come across as lying, which can completely change a scene for the worse.
In-universe lore reason: Jake is a romantic and probably feels that the more tactile approach is better for his creative process.
I mean, we've still got authors typing up manuscripts on mechanical typewriters and GRRM writing ASOIAF on a DOS computer. Jake wanting to use a pen is possibly one of the least weird things about Trek tech.