If your hand cramps from using the skinny stylus (like mine does), you can pick up the the Wacom Bamboo Feel stylus for Galaxy Note.
There are two different versions of the Bamboo Feel stylus, regular (model CS300UW) and a specific model for the Galaxy Notes (model CS300UW2). There is some confusion, as the regular model is marketed as compatible with the Galaxay Note 10.1 as well as Windows 8 tablets.
Being stupid, (and not being able to find the Galaxy Note version available outside of Japan, no delivery to Canada
), I opted for the regular model. Works great with my Note 1 phone, but has a 2.5mm offset with my Note 8
. Conversely, my Note 8 stylus has an offset in the opposite direction on my Note 1.
So, getting brave, I trimmed about 1.5mm off the back of one of the nibs (it comes with 3) and found that the offset has almost disappeared (0.3 to 0.5mm left). I can work with this. Great for writing and taking notes, just okay for precision drawing.
So if - like me - you live in one of the armpit countries of the world that no-one wants to deliver to and you can't find the CS300UW2 model, the CS300UW model will work. How much better the CS300UW2 model works with the Note 8, I have no idea.