Peter Wooster

This plugin allows authors to restrict the users’s access to individual pages, posts and menu items based on the user’s logged in status.
Features for Authors
<ul>
<li>You can restrict pages and posts while editing by using the “Simple Access Control” widget.</li>
<li>You can set the message displayed when a visitor accesses a locked page using the “Simple Access Control” item in the Settings menu</li>
<li>The locked status is shown in the admin page and post lists</li>
<li>a “Loggedin Text” widget is available that only displays text to logged in users</li>
<li>You can set an option to display the menu even when filtered</li>
<li>You can set an option to force a 404 Not Found error on direct access to a restricted page</li>
</ul>
Features seen by users
<ul>
<li>Locked pages and posts are not displayed</li>
<li>Locked items are removed from standard and custom menus</li>
<li>A message asking you to log in is displayed if you access it directly using its address or using the next and previous links</li>
<li>A 404 Not Found error may be displayed on access to a restricted page</li>
<li>A login/logout link is displayed in the mesage</li>
<li>Loggedin Text widgets are not visible</li>
<li>Pages and posts can be hidden from either logged in or not logged in users </li>
</ul>
Additional Features
There are no additional features supported by Simple Access Control. The code is simple, small and well documented, 
so you can use it as a starting point for your own access control plugin.

Simple Access Control

Well thought out -- uses filters to hide selected pages and menu items.

A bit more documentation would be nice though -- it took me a while to find the extra check boxes on the right hand side of the post/page editing form.

Excellent

A very simple plugin that hides specific pages, posts and menu items from users based on their logged in staus.

Eliot Akira

Admin Menu Post List adds a simple post list in the admin menu for easy access. It supports posts, pages, and custom post types.
In the normal admin menu, when you’re editing a post and wish to go to another one, you have to click on All Posts, then select a post — or have All Posts open on another browser tab. With the Admin Menu Post List, you can just select the next post to edit, direct from the menu.
<ul>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Settings->Post List, enable post types and options</li>
</ul>
A post list will be added to the bottom of each corresponding post type’s menu. You can see it by hovering over the menu item, or when the item is open. The current post is shown in bold, draft/pending posts are in italics, and child pages are listed under the parent.
<h4>Options</h4>

For each post type, you can limit the number of items to display: for example, the five most recent posts.
You can choose to order the post list by:
<ul>
<li>Created date</li>
<li>Modified date</li>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Menu order</li>
</ul>
And the direction of the order:
<ul>
<li>ASC – ascending – alphabetical (1, 2, 3; a, b, c)</li>
<li>DESC – descending – new to old (3, 2, 1; c, b, a)</li>
</ul>
By default, they are set to display from most recent to older posts.
Also, you can choose to display only published posts, and exclude those with future, draft or pending status.
Global settings:
<ul>
<li>Limit title length – Trim the title by number of characters</li>
<li>Hide child posts</li>
<li>Include non-public post types</li>
</ul>
<h4>Recommended</h4>

<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wider-admin-menu/" rel="ugc">Wider Admin Menu</a>
<h4>Note</h4>

There is a plugin called <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/intuitive-custom-post-order/" rel="ugc">Intuitive Custom Post Order</a>, which lets you order posts by drag and drop. If it’s installed, it overrides the post order settings in the admin menu also.

Simple Access Control vs Admin Menu Post List