Todoist Filters Configured for Each Human Design Authority
Your Human Design authority is the inner compass that tells you which decisions are yours to make. Your task manager is the place where most of those decisions land. When the two systems speak the same language, decisions stop feeling like friction and start feeling like flow.
Todoist's filter engine is unusually good for this. With a handful of saved views, you can shape the surface of your day around the way your body and mind actually weigh options. Here is how to configure filters for each of the seven authorities.
Emotional Authority (Solar Plexus)
Emotional authority is about riding the wave. Clarity arrives by waiting, not by deciding faster. Your filter setup should never force a verdict. It should give you a calm, prioritized view you can return to at different points in your emotional cycle.
Suggested filters:
- `p1 & (today | overdue | tomorrow)` — the high-stakes items, but only within a narrow time window. This keeps the urgent surface small so you are not pressuring yourself to resolve everything at once.
- `created: today & @revisit` — every new task you capture today gets the `revisit` label. You sleep on it, then return to it tomorrow to see if the wave has settled into a real yes.
- `no date & @unsorted` — your emotional authority does not want to commit to dates too early. Park undated items here so you decide on them only when you feel clear.
Sacral Authority
Sacral authority lives in the gut. It answers with an immediate "uh-huh" or "uh-uh" the moment you imagine doing the thing. Your filters should help you act on what your body is responding to right now and remove the cognitive load of long-horizon planning.
Suggested filters:
- `(today | overdue) & !@later` — only the things physically in front of you, stripped of anything tagged for another time. Your sacral cannot respond to a task it cannot see.
- `30 days & @sacral-yes` — a forward window for sacral-resonated projects. You add tasks here only when your gut has confirmed them, then pull from it daily.
- `p1 & p2` — a tight priority band. Sacral types thrive when there is not too much on the table at once.
Splenic Authority
Splenic authority is intuitive, fast, and survival-oriented. It whispers in the moment and then goes quiet. Your filters should mirror that, surfacing what matters now and hiding what does not require an instant read.
Suggested filters:
- `today & p1` — the only "must-see" view. Splenic authority needs a clean, sharp snapshot, not a long list.
- `@inbox & no date` — anything still in the inbox without a date is a candidate for instant splenic triage. You open the filter, scan, and either act, delete, or schedule in seconds.
- `7 days` — a slightly wider window for quieter days when the spleen still has something to say, but the urgency has softened.
Ego/Heart (Manifested) Authority
Ego authority decides through willpower and the question, "What do I want to do, and what can I commit to?" Your filters should be built around desire and commitment, not urgency.
Suggested filters:
- `@want & !@obligation` — tasks tagged with what you actually want to do. Heart authority is honest about motivation, and this filter keeps that honesty visible.
- `p1 & @committed` — your top commitments. If a task is here, you said yes with your whole chest, and it is fair game for your energy.
- `today & @delegate-or-drop` — a ruthless view of today's tasks that you do not want to do. Heart authority has finite willpower. Either you find someone else, or you release it.
Self-Projected Authority
Self-Projected authority needs to hear itself speak. Clarity comes through talking, journaling, or voicing the question out loud. Your filters should put the right things in front of your mouth, not in front of your calendar.
Suggested filters:
- `@needs-voice & p1` — tasks that require you to talk something out before you can act. These belong in a journal, a voice note, or a conversation.
- `@waiting & p1` — high-priority items you have handed off to other people. Projected authority is a sounding board, and this filter keeps the right prompts visible.
- `no date & @