Actually, of the items I carry in my pockets, the wetnotes are probably the ones I access most often. (That wouldn't be true if I dove from a boat a lot, but 90% of my diving is done from shore, so shooting a bag isn't often required.) I certainly don't get them out on every dive, but when there is an issue that requires consensus and that is more complex than hand or light signals permit, the wetnotes are the way to do it.
We had a dive day before yesterday, where we ended up not putting the anchor where we wanted it. At a point, I felt we needed to discuss whether the team wanted to continue to search for the feature we had dropped to dive, or whether we wanted to abort. I could have made a unilateral decision and simply thumbed the dive, but I was willing to continue to look if everybody else wanted to. That's the kind of thing I've found wetnotes ideal for.
And for me, putting them in my right pocket is perfect, because it's SO much easier to access than the left! So I can be compliant and convenient at the same time
