> reducing ... into text. Are you though? You can just view the text as memories. Same as taking pictures on vacations: "reducing vacations to pictures" sound

> reducing ... into text. Are you though? You can just view the text as memories. Same as taking pictures on vacations: "reducing vacations to pictures" sounds like a pretty bad vacation/more like photography work. "Taking pictures of cherished moments and places" sounds like something you might look at again from time to time to fondly remember.