I recently learned that there are digital pens now that almost perfectly resemble classical traditional writing tools, like the black and yellow Staedtler pencil.
I was so disappointed to learn that they won't work with current Wacom Cintiq line, and it took me while to figure that out.
Pen compatibility is a mess.
You will want the Wacom Movink 13 and 14 and MovinkPad 11 for that.
For Wacom at least, it's not that bad, there are product lines (which are further sub-divided into generations):
- Pro: Intuos/Cintiq
- consumer
- specialized mobile/folding
and the styluses are specific to each, except for products which straddle a divide such as the Movink, or the strange case of a folding phone where the stylus uses the same frequency as the eraser of the consumer line (I suspect to prevent folks from damaging the hinge with a hard tip).
That said, it's pretty easy to gut a Wacom stylus and place the innards in any shell one wants.
That said, I miss some of the older products --- esp. the tracing pucks and the "airbrush" handles and the stylus ID which allowed one to assign different tools in Painter to different physical styluses and switch by putting one down and grabbing another.
That said, it's just magical that I can: take a note on my Kindle Scribe, switch to drawing on my Wacom One or Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, and _not_ have to switch tools, since they all use the same stylus technology --- best of all, I'll never have to spend a weekend at my mother-in-law's w/o a stylus, since the stylus in my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ serves as a backup (and for expressive drawing on the go I can get the Lamy Wacom Stylus out of my bag).
Another pro for Wacom - in-kernel Linux driver support. My brother donated me a Wacom tablet from 2002 that "just works" and has full digitizer settings and keybinds in my GNOME settings app. Apparently the modern Windows/MacOS Wacom driver experience isn't quite so forgiving...
I have been using that Staedtler pencil for almost three years. I absolutely love it. I think I'm on only my third or forth nib. I've used it with Note and S Ultra devices, and a Boox E-ink device.