@MikeC, Not that I want to let monday off the hook for putting this into the base package, but, you might take a look at the winning entry for the recent monday app contest: 1View - Make your Dream View in monday to manage, update and track everything at one single place.
I haven’t tried it yet myself. But it looks like it does a lot of what I was looking for here. @thusitha, what do you think?