One very unhappy moment was when that went away without notice -- service downgrades are sort of the exact opposite of "underpromise, overdeliver".
And ... the search was at best only marginally useful, as you note.
The other antipattern aspects of Pocket, as well as the absolute failure to progress in anything remotely like a useful direction, are exceedingly disappointing.
As I've written in the FAQs [1], one of the key advantages of EmailThis is that you don't rely on any external service. So if a service like Readability goes down, you don't end up losing all your saved bookmarks.
Regarding search & filtering, if you are using Gmail or Outlook, you can set filters that automatically move incoming bookmark emails (that EmailThis sends) into specific folders based on keywords/tags.
You can also leverage the fulltext search that your email client provides.
[1] https://www.emailthis.me/pages/faqs#instapaper-readability-a...
The problem is actually email. I no longer trust it as a secure and private facility.
I've thought of maintaining a local-only email archive as an alternative, which kind of works.
Alternatively, if you were willing to support PGP, and not include metadata in the subject line, that would be an option.
Other than that, I think the idea and service are excellent, and thank you for it, it's just not for me :(