| I'm using Pocket, and am in the process of switching from Readability (~2,000 articles archived there) as well as adding more articles. It's got some positives and negatives, though I'm fairly impressed so far (this is rare, so that alone is high praise). 1. Tags. Lots and lots of tags. It doesn't tell me how man I've got, though >1,000 wouldn't surprise me. I tend to organise stuff heavily. 2. Title, tag, and FULL TEXT search. This alone is a huge win over Readability, which lacked text-based search. The bad news: search appears to be OR rather than AND, meaning that lots of search terms increase rather than narrow search scope. If that's true, it's fucking idiotic. (Ello's search has a similar failure.) 3. Pretty good rendering. Overall the Pocket Android app is far better than the Readability app. 4. Responsive support. I've filed a mass of suggestions through the Pocket web form, plus a few through email. The latter have elicited responses, which is promising. No actual bugs fixed yet, though I'm hoping this will happen. 5. Good presentation defaults. Essentially preferable to ALL default Web design. White, sepia, and night-mode options, with font face and size controls. 6. Active development, support, communications. Readability appears to have entirely ceased public activity as of ~December 2012, with a (fairly annoying) set of feature changes. I suspect it's not long for this world. What's missing from Pocket: 1. Counts. Count everything, at least on request. 2. User stats. Overviews of article counts, add, archive, read, and delete rates would be helpful. 3. Multi-tag search. My tagging pays off most if I can filter to specific sets of topics. Generally, the tag system wants a lot of UI/UX love. Some longer comments on how tags might be improved:
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