If you bind it to a hotkey it's much less tedious. Personally I like the shift-row for world manipulation, so I usually do stealth on shift-1, lockpick on shift-2, haxxor on shift-3, omnitool on shift-4, huxkey on shift-5 and shift-6, advanced picks on shift-7. Then it's just one quick key press to interact with the tool of my choice.
It's like binding the robot control device in the battery plant. If you just go ahead and put it on one of your hotbar spots, it makes things much more efficient.