There are some fields you can add to your post or page when using the ipagelist() function in your templates:
pagelist_category The category ID to show the latests posts from.
pagelist_tag The tag to show the latest posts tagged with.
pagelist_page The page ID we want to show the child pages. If set to This when editing a page, will show the child pages from the current page.
Also, there are some optional custom fields to customize the output:
pagelist_title The custom title you want for the list. Set to Hide to hide the title.
pagelist_depth The depth level for child pages. Set to All to show all levels. Only used with pagelist_page.
pagelist_number The number of posts to show in the list. Not used with pagelist_page.