GooglePixelbook Pen

I LOVE the pixelbook pen. It writes very smoothly and keeps up with fast paced note taking. Works with special apps, Google keep, Evernote. You can then import to Google Docs as an image. Works great for making electronic flash cards when you want that handwritten feel. Really good for me as a kinesthetic learner.

Worked without issues with my pixel book. The pen did come without the battery installed so be sure to look/have a aaa battery handy

The button is placed so that it is very hard to write without accidentally pressing it, causing assistant to pop up and interrupt whatever you were trying to write or draw. But the worst part is the thin plastic on the threads - I am super careful with my stuff and never abused it, yet the plastic part is cracked such that it won't stay screwed together, so stops working when you try to write with it. A quick online search will reveal that this is a common problem - there are lots of used ones for sale cheap with those unrepairable cracks, and I cannot find a way to tape or glue it together to make it usable. Definitely not worth the inflated price. I found a used Wacom Bamboo Ink pen, which uses the same AES2 protocol, and which works perfectly on the Pixelbook. It's a lot more comfortable to write with, too. Get one of those instead of this.

I use it for the pixelbook computer.Why didn't pixelbook send a pen with their computer. Only they can answer that. Anyway nice device to have with the pixelbook.

I had used Surface Tablets through multiple generations of their devices and loved them. After moving to Google Suite for work and deciding on a Pixelbook, I missed my pen, and decided to try this out. I can't believe I'm saying it, but I think I love this pen more! It is responsive and light, and I haven't seen much latency or lag on any of the apps I have used it with.The only dislikes I've had with the pen is that it is SMOOTH and therefore not very grippy to my hand. I feel like I adjust my hold on it more than I did with my previous pen-stylus. I also hit the Google Assistant button a LOT. I hope that eventually we'll be able to change the function of the button, because I have never once wanted to open Google Assistant with it (it picks up my voice...why would I hit a button to trigger that same function?), and would MUCH rather have it work as an eraser tool or 'right-click' tool. Other than that, I love it!

As far as tablet styluses go, this one is pretty decent. Good weight, good feel, the button on the side isn't in as annoying a spot as most of the Note styluses (stylii?) All in all it feels decent. I don't really ever use the special feature of it, I mainly use it for drawing in jackbox games or when I attempt to draw something nice for my wife, which I think she appreciates as one would appreciate art given to them by a toddler. I've had a bunch of different Note styluses (Note 4, Note 2014 10.1, Tab S3, and a Wacom fancy stylus for the first 2, and I like the feel of this one significantly better, and I find myself hitting the button on accident a heck of a lot less.Downsides:- Atrocious battery life. I hardly ever use mine and I already need to replace the battery 3.5 months into owning it. I've only used it maybe a dozen times, too, since I don't do a ton of drawing with it.- Uses a stupid moon battery size (AAAA) that you won't use for anything else ever.- Nowhere to store it on the pixelbook. Google sent me a free pen loop for it, unfortunately it's pretty terrible and I just took it right off. I appreciated the gesture but it wasn't any good. It really needs a way to solidly click into place here or something. As it goes, I keep it in a pen slot in the backpack I have that I carry the pixelbook in, so it's not the end of the world, but I'd probably use it more if I didn't have to go grab the backpack to have it.- Its special feature is pretty gimmicky for most people. Some will probably have a use case for it, I did not. I played with it a handful of times and "huh that's kind of neat I guess" but it's not often that I want to google assistant something on my screen. I type 130wpm too so its utility to save on typing is a bit less for me unless i'm in tablet mode.- Limited utility in general for most people for something that costs what it doesI know I listed a lot of downsides here for giving it 3 stars, but it still is a pretty good stylus, and some of the downsides aren't its fault exactly. Other people are going to be more its target market than me. The battery life is inexcusable though. For something that's supposed to be a year long battery life I shouldn't be getting constant "Stylus battery is low - Please replace the battery" warnings already, especially with my minimal use.tl;dr - Solid stylus if you need a stylus, lousy battery life, no convenient storage.