Archives Plugin that lists articles with excerpts

You don’t need any plugin for that.
Just use the archive.php template file and replace the_content with the_excerpt.

Thanks moshu, can you explain how I use the archive.php template?

Your theme is using it: https://last-straw.net/2006/02/
It just has the_content tag in it instead of the_excerpt.
The same template file is used to display your category “archives view”.

Replacing the_content with the_excerpt would do it.
Unless I misunderstood the question and you want something else…

Great, thanks. So just to reiterate for those with even less experience: find the archive.php file in your theme directory, open it and search for the_content and replace with the_excerpt.