I think I've done that over the years partly on a small chart plotter screen. Now I find the tablet size is more than adequate for the "big picture". I just zipped down to Lee Stocking Island in the Exumas, from Rockport, to see how long the row was to Georgetown. Easy, I like stepping quickly between the big-little data images, then homing into the smallest corrected chart detail, today, and pick out where we anchored 20 years ago. Touch-slide divider tool, 1 NM. (Not as far as I remember, I can still do that row).

But I think this has taken effect over time/use, I wasn't aware was happening(could also be from working on a small screen laptop). I could also do the same on a large scale chart(I used to estimate the distance from the scale-close enough), if there was one next to me right now.