Use Articles for other things besides a blog. Any kind of grouping of pages can be contained in "Articles". It's just a container resource with some pre-built features common to blogs. Its children are the individual items/articles/posts and don't show in the resource tree to conserve tree space. This would be suitable for lists of items where each item will have a link to its own page.
You can use MIGXdb to do much the same thing without all the built-in stuff like Quip (commenting) etc.
The listing snippets built-in to Articles can also be used by themselves; getResources for listing (news, blogs, articles, etc) and getPage which is a paging wrapper for any of the listing snippets. See the rtfm for these, and other commonly used listing snippets.
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getPage
You can also sometimes use Quip (the commenting extra) in creative ways to provide easy management of lists of things like restaurant menus or "what's new" lists that don't need to have links to their own pages; although MIGx is an even better choice for such things. Create a resource with the template the MIGx TV is attached to as the management page for the list. You can get really fancy and use Form Customization to remove all the other fields for that resource, since it's only used to manage the MIGx TV's grid. It makes a great simple gallery, for example a video gallery. Choose the javascript slideshow or rotator you want to use, and the TV's processing snippet (typically getImageList) generates the HTML you specify in its tpl to suit the javascript's requirements.
https://www.markhamstra.com/modx-blog/2012/04/managing-galleries-with-migx/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k5JTjSkZxM
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