Try a hybrid approach. Keep the tablet for points and context sheets but make yourself sketch the section by hand first, then shoot it. I did that on a dig in York last season and it changed everything. You still get the speed of the GIS for the archive, but your hand is on the paper noticing where the clay turns to silt because the pencil catches. Another trick is to set the trowel down every 10cm and just stare at the wall before you shoot anything. Sounds dumb but it works.

$60 for paper is wild, just buy the cheap stuff next time.

Checked my own scoop after reading this and it landed at 13 grams, which explains a lot about some bad cups I blamed on the beans. So do you weigh every single time now, or was it just the first week that really sold you on it? Six years of guessing is a long habit to break for a $12 scale.