I often find myself looking for a quick way to get to the top level admin screens in the WordPress admin.
The Toolbar Quick View plugin adds a “View” menu to the toolbar (which replaced the admin bar in WordPress version 3.3) with quick links to these common items. The links are actually identical to the “+ New” menu in the toolbar, except that it goes to the admin archive page. It will also pick up any custom post types you may have added to your site, just like the “+ New” toolbar menu.
You can download it from WordPress.org if you would like to use it, and see my release post for further information.
Very handy! nice work, BK.