Hi Tate,
If being able to set up a filter to allow you to combine the New and Updated records with a status value as well would be helpful for your business process I would suggest adding that request to our User Voice. It is the user feedback platform our Product Development team uses to track customer feedback on requests for new features and enhancements to existing features. The Quick Base User voice can most easily be accessed from the My Apps page in Quick Base by clicking on the orange Feedback tab that appears on the right of the page or at
http://quickbase.uservoice.com by signing in with your Quick Base credentials.
In the interim if your dashboard is getting too cluttered with repeating reports but you would still like to make access to them possible one short term option is to create a button bar with buttons set to open up the reports that have been filtered to only show new and updated records for that user or to show the in progress reports. This way they can at least get to the report with one more click, allowing them to know where to find the report since you are running out of real estate on the Dashboard.
I hope that information is helpful Tate and thank you very much for your time today.