Creative uses for a Shinola Runwell planner?

December 17, 2019 6:27 AM

I was just gifted a lovely monogrammed Shinola Runwell Planner. I am, however, a member of the cult of Bullet Journal and do not want to switch back to using a traditional planner. Other than regifting, what other creative uses can I find for a week-at-a-glance hardback planner?

The tricky bit here of course is that the whole idea of Bullet Journal is that it's customizable to one's needs, so I don't know what unique need could be met by this other journal.

The Runwell has a birthday record, a year-at-a-glance, then monthly and weekly spreads, with a bunch of plain lined pages at the back to fill it out.

My wife and I already have a "one line a day" diary in which we write down the cute things our kid does.

posted by HeroZero to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (9 answers total)

Response by poster: I have somewhat uncommon initials, but I do have the email addresses of 3 other people who have the same and could give this item to one of them. I'm not especially good friends with any of them.
posted by HeroZero at 6:31 AM on December 17, 2019

Best answer: Recipe keeper

Travel journal

Home journal (measurements for house, paint colors, maintenance info, info on all appliances, etc.)

Sketchbook/Art journal
posted by jraz at 6:33 AM on December 17, 2019

Spend a few minutes each evening jotting down a nice memory from the day or a doodle about the day if you're artistic. Keep it as a gratitude journal, or just a memory keeper. Yes you can totally do this in a bullet journal, but they are things that it would be nice to have all in one place, the nature of bullet journals ends up with this sort of thing scattered through out it's pages. Where you miss the impact of all the things you are grateful for, that made you happy etc being all in once place.
posted by wwax at 6:41 AM on December 17, 2019 [5 favorites]

Dream journal.
posted by k8lin at 7:34 AM on December 17, 2019

carve out the inside pages, and use it as a secret container for cash, whiskey, etc?
posted by atetrachordofthree at 7:35 AM on December 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

Best answer: A few years ago some friends and I set up a "travelling journal"-- each person would have the journal for a week or so before passing it onto someone else. Each person wrote whatever they wanted. It went back and forth between the core group, and sometimes it went to someone who's outside of the group of friends for a week. We lost track of it eventually, but it was a real treat to read through "week in the life of this friend" entries, which I got to do every time the journal came back to me.

You could do something like that for a year. Maybe with 12 friends! or 4! or whatever number. Just make sure to put clear instructions to mail/bring it back to you this time next year.
posted by redwaterman at 7:43 AM on December 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

I'm also a bullet journal cultist. If I liked the cover and liked the paper, I would just ignore what's printed on the pages and write over it. Pretend the pages are blank.
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:45 AM on December 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

Those are nice big spaces, perfect for filling with a daily sketch or favorite photo you took that day or cover art of a movie/book/album you enjoyed.
posted by Flannery Culp at 7:52 AM on December 17, 2019

A while back I used a personal calendar notebook as a generic journal and quite liked it.
posted by rebent at 6:17 AM on December 18, 2019