Alan North
I love a paper planner, but I too often find that I also need a second notebook to keep the rest of my thoughts and to-do lists somewhere. That changed once I tried the Roterunner Purpose Planner. The wide B5 design has space for multiple lists, and even organizes them for you in advance: each week spread has a checklist for work, home, projects, and friends, plus a little buy and not-buy section, and even habit and gratitude trackers. Extra bonus? There’s a blank two pages after every week for writing out more random ideas, specific to-do lists for a certain day (each day has a checklist of five on the main spread, but sometimes that’s not enough for me), or brainstorms for future projects. It’s finally one planner that can do it all. It’s an undated six-month planner, so you can start it whenever you like and skip a week if you needed to, or even an entire month, without needing to deal with tons of blank pages.
If she’s already got a planner she loves, then gift her these beautiful highlighters from Passion Planner. I use colors from both the Essentials Set ($16) and the Vintage Set ($16) in my personal highlighting system so that I can see what’s for me, what’s for my kiddo, and when I’m supposed to work out at a quick glance. The colors are beautiful and vibrant from both sets, and have both a wide highlighter end and a pen end if she’s more of a doodler. —Nena Farrell
