I've investigated a few ways to maintain a list of open buffers in Vim, and some of them are very good, but none of them seem to behave the way I'd like. It's very possible that nothing like what I want exists, and it can't hurt to ask.

I've been using NERDTree in GVim, and I like the idea of putting the information in a slender left-hand window. I've put together a handy diagram for how I'd like my environment to look:

|--------|---------------------------------------|
|        |                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|NERDTree|           Windows                     | 
|        |                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|--------|                                       |
|        |                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|  List  |                                       | 
|   of   |                                       | 
|  Open  |                                       | 
| Buffers|                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|        |                                       | 
|--------|---------------------------------------|

So my question is: Is there a vim-native or plugin-enabled way to maintain a list of currently open buffers and select/edit/close from that list, inside a window similar to NERDTree?

I understand that this approach may be incongruous with the Vim way of doing things, and if you feel like I'm missing something about how to manage multiple files in a Vim session, please leave a comment with suggestions!