[dhunter]

Thanks. I figure out what my problem was- it's not just the date, but also the time. So I had "due soon" set to 2 days. I was looking at the perspective at 3pm this afternoon, so anything after 3pm 2 days from now wasn't showing up!

In the perspective view filters, I wish you could specify how long "soon" is rather than just a global "due soon", to be able to look at upcoming actions in different ways- "what do I have to do the next 2 days" and "what do I have coming up this week"

Maybe that's what "start" is for, but I still can't figure out how to specify, view "actions that start within the next _ days"