Favorites
Favorite views you frequently use.
Overview
Favorites are personal shortcuts which appear in your sidebar.
O then F to open favorites
- Click the star next to issue, project, label, and custom views to mark or unmark favorite
- Click on favorites from the sidebar
- Hover over favorite then click
X
to remove it
favorite
to favorite or unfavorite issue
open favorite
to open favorite
Basics
Applicable views
If a view can be favorited, you'll see the outline of a star in the top bar next to the view name. You can favorite the following views in Linear:
- Issues
- Users
- Projects
- Specific Cycles
- Custom Views
- Label views
- Default views: all issues, active issues, backlog, board, current cycles, upcoming cycles.
The following views cannot be favorited. Instead, you can create a custom view filtered to show issues in these views:
- User profile (filter for issues assigned by the user and relevant statuses)
Add favorites
To favorite, select the ⭐ icon in the page header. You can also select the issue and search for the favorite
command. Favorites do not always show up on contextual menus.
Create folders
To create a folder for favorites, hover over favorites and click the icon to the right to create a new folder, or create from the ⭐ icon menu. You can give it a name of your choosing and easily drag any existing favorites in or out of the folder.
Access favorites
Once you favorite an issue, you'll see a Favorites section appear in your sidebar above Your Teams. You can access favorites by clicking on them from the sidebar or searching for them in the command menu. The shortcut O then F will open a menu from which you can open a favorite, too.
Remove favorite
Hover over the favorite in the sidebar and click on the X
to remove it. This is not reversible but you can easily add the favorite again by going to the issue or view and selecting the star.