I know a lot of people who use the Freestyle-Mode as their normal diary and don´t use the other mode because of several reasons. And though we actually do use the Freestyle mode in a chronological oder and create a project for every year.

For example you could create an option to sort a Freestyle Project chronological or customized. And for the people who sort it chronological you could implement the same time jump feature as in the timeline mode.

Reasons why I use the Freestyle Mode instead of the Timeline Mode as my diary:

I prefer it because I´m not filming a snippet every day. I like to use my journal in a way like memories work for me.

Sometimes I have a week where I mostly work and I don´t need many snippets of that and then there is a week where a lot is happening and maybe I want to do 5 snippets on some days of that week.

So in a Freestyle project that´s all one beautiful feed of all the things I want to remember.

But in a Journal project there would be many empty days and I´m limited in the amount of snippets per day and I thinks it also looks different when I upload several snippets on one day in a Journal project.

I do it like that for more than 6 years and have a freestyle project for every year. I even transferred my old journal project in freestyle projects because it´s nicer to look at it like that.

So I think it´s a better experience for everybody who is not using the app in a classic way of one or two snippets every day.

And most people I know don´t use it in that classic way.

But if the Freestyle projects would be optimized for this purpose the app would become more attractive for a lot of people who want a whole memory of there year but don´t want the pressure of making snippets every day but instead when they create meaningful memories :)