I use fzf[1] for all my project navigation needs. It integrates very well with vim. You can get a quick recursive look at everything in the CWD with a stroke of a key and the fuzzy matching is instantaneous.
not op, but i use ctrlp.vim for everything. feels a lot better than most things.
Yeah, exactly. I use NERDTree for discovering new projects, but other than that, I use a fuzzy matcher for files and buffers. I used ctrlp for years, but recently switched to fzf because it's just faster.