Does anyone have a way for users that are part of parallel transition rolls to know/search for what documents are awaiting their review??

So in our workflow we have set up parallel approvals with anywhere from 1 to 4 rolls depending on the level of the document (Development to Production).  The users each get email notifications when there are documents needing their attention. But as various reviewers approve/reject documents the emails can get out of date/disorganized quickly.  ie: 2 people in the same roll get the email that their review is required, as soon as user 1 does it, user 2 doesn't know that and the only way is to look manually at each document pending approval.

I tried setting up Mapped Approvers but the data only gets written to the variables once ALL roll requirements have been reached and the transition goes through.

Also, the user that submitted the document(s) for review, has no way of knowing who has done what approvals without looking at the history for each document (HUGE waste of time) and therefore who to go bug about getting their documents reviewed.

Please tell me there is a better way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!