Odoo has filters like this:

<filter string="Late Activities"
        name="activities_overdue"
        domain="[('activity_ids.date_deadline', '&lt;', context_today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))]"
        help="Show all records which has next action date is before today"/>

<filter string="Today Activities"
        name="activities_today"
        domain="[('activity_ids.date_deadline', '=',
            context_today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))]"/>

<filter string="Future Activities"
        name="activities_upcoming_all"
        domain="[('activity_ids.date_deadline',
            '&gt;', context_today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))]"/>