I don't believe you can achieve what you are requesting, but taking a different approach to start dates, due dates, and the use of filters should meet your needs.
You may find it helpful to change “Rough draft of Prof. Paper” to a sequential project and set the project's due date to 12/15. You could then divide it into smaller tasks and assign start and due dates to each task, as necessary.
Example:
Project: Write rough draft of paper for Professionalism in Medicine seminar (due 12/15)
- Brainstorm list of potential topics focusing on broad areas of knowledge, skills, altruism, and/or duty (start 11/15, due 11/16)
- Generate 3 narrow-focus topics within selected area(s) (start 11/15, due 11/16)
- Select specific topic (start 11/16, due 11/17)
- Create basic outline for topic as it pertains to medical reasoning, management of conditions (start 11/17, due 11/19)
- Download powerpoint presentation on accepted protocol from Gesundheit! Institute (start 11/18, due 11/19)
- Learn how to make balloon animals, specifically giraffe and dog (start 11/18, due 11/19)
- …
- Verify format of citations (start 12/12, due 12/13)
- Print paper. (start 12/14, due 12/14)
- Turn in paper to Prof in (due 12/15)
In the context view, use your Due view to see your tasks divided into past due, due today, due tomorrow, due next week, and so forth, as you observed in your original post. If you only want to see what's due today, simply collapse all folders in the main outline (right pane) except the Due Today folder. Save this as a perspective and place in your toolbar for easy daily access. You can also choose to use the Focus feature to show only the tasks in your rough draft paper project. (In Planning mode, select the project in the left pane, go to View > Focus on: [project], switch to Context mode with your Due Today view. This can also be saved as a perspective).
Your Start view can then be used as a tickler in your daily and weekly reviews. Once again, if you only want to see tasks to start today, collapse the other folders in the main outline and save as a perspective, or use the Focus feature to only see the tasks in your paper project. Together with your Due Today view, you can quickly reference what tasks need to be started and completed each day.
There are some helpful tips about start dates in
this thread, and some examples of reviews in
this thread.