Linear Reviews

I use Linear for keeping track of projects and really appreciate its nice natural flow for feature implementation. What I like most is that Linear is the only project management tool I've tried this year that I actually want to use. The UI is great; it's clean and small, making it appealing and easy to navigate. The initial setup was really easy for my team.

I don't know right now

I find Linear provides a nice natural flow for feature implementation, making project tracking smoother.

Super easy to use, has everything that I need to keep my work organized and communicate features effectively with the rest of the team.

There is nothing I dislike about Linear, everything works great.

Most ticketing tools are bloated and ugly. Linear keeps me organized and allows my mind to be free of unnecessary clutter as I work.

Linear is a powehouse for managing projects without spending too much time doing meta work. It's clean in terms of UI, connects automatically with my tools and definitively makes us save time by being efficient and quick at work. Price is very fair.

I wish we could have more integrations or more customisation of how things work in our workspace.

Status of the projects, overall progress tracking and visibility

Linear easily integrates with other tools like slack and GitHub to bring conversations into one central place for each ticket. It's available automations for ticket creation and assignees are useful as well and really help to streamline workflows.

It is difficult to find things in linear. The default navigation shows only the ticket hierarchy for your team (I'm not aware of a way to change it) and there is no clear path to browse tickets from other teams. My most significant grievance is with the UI. The buttons to create new tickets are small and difficult to find. The default color scheme is very light and low contrast, with text being very difficult to read. Options to customize the colors exist, but the default settings should be a bit better out of the box.

Linear allows tickets to be created and tracked. It allows a ticket to act as a central point of conversation, and serves as a source of status for work that is in progress.

I think the clutter is very less compared to everything else that I've used. It's like you can figure out what you want to see, or like, you can open what you want to see in very less amount of time. It's very clean. It's very fast. It's also very easy to use. The entire process or the entire feature where we can create a project with multiple issues and then track them together is great. I also appreciate the connectivity with GitHub, which allows tracking PRs and status updates automatically. It makes tracking things easy without manually having to close issues and projects.

Not much to be honest, I used to face a bug where it refused to update but that has since been solved.

Linear simplifies project management, keeping our tasks organized with automatic GitHub integration. It reduces clutter, is easy to use, and makes tracking progress effortless.

I’ve used Jira before, and with Linear everything feels more intuitive and streamlined. It has a CLI and MCP built in, and it can integrate with Claude code or Codex. You can divvy up individual tickets into projects and organize them hierarchically, which makes it easier to keep work structured. You can add implementation details to the ticket itself in .md and that becomes the prd + design doc. Super easy to spin up agents using the linear ticket cause everything about the feature implementation is contained in the ticket. Overall, it feels like it’s built for agentic workflows.

There isn’t much to dislike. The only thing I’d probably change is the way Slack conversations are linked to Linear. When I comment on Linear from a Slack conversation, it shows up in Slack as if it’s coming from a different user.

Agentic workflow and effort tracking are both central to how we work. We depend heavily on agentic coding, and Linear enables us to iterate faster and stay focused on building features instead of worrying about effort tracking and work attribution.

Guided reviews are a new feature that help with reviews of large PRs.

More OOTB analytics and insights would be helpful.

Project management

It's super developer friendly, no weird menus, very flexible, excelent shortcuts, AI MCP works great, integrates with Github flawlessly, and Linear AI helps a lot on getting a quick overview or project metrics.

Still falls short on automations, we have been complementing it with AI workflows.

Linear enables easy structuring of initiatives, linking dependencies, and organizing sprints. It's developer-friendly with intuitive shortcuts and a simple API, making it easy to use and integrate.

I love how fast and responsive it is. I also love how easy it is to find the fields that I need, and share links with the team. Big fan of the github integration too. Also like the MCP servers we can hook up to it and triage for us.

I do wish it had an easier way to break projects into phases. Like product lead, then design lead, then engineering lead.

It is solving our ability to work together and organize work for

I love the Linear experience as a whole; it's so easy to use. It has redefined what software looks like for me. I love the AI features, the keyboard shortcuts, and the ability to ingest a lot of key insights that I historically had in different places. I'm now able to see everything in one centralized manner. The keyboard shortcuts are the biggest thing I value, allowing me to zoom in and out of initiatives, projects, and issues very quickly. I also use the Linear Agent, especially its Slack integration, to directly create issues with context from threads. I appreciate how it integrates with different sub-agents, helping my team and I execute on the tickets created. I also find the modern software keyboard shortcuts and the quality of the product itself very appealing.

Right now, the thing that doesn't that the area with Linear that is a little bit challenging is understanding the scope of responsibility per person per week. It seems like it handles projects well over extended periods, but not every single person assigned to a project will be working on it actively at all times. So, I'd love to see a breakdown that allows for week-over-week visibility on individual responsibilities. Also, getting adoption from non-EPD teams like go-to-market and operations is difficult, as Linear is very specifically tailored towards EPD.

I find that Linear helps me solve organization issues and accountability for deliverables, as well as planning and gathering inputs from customers and teams.