Inbox

The Inbox is your notification center in Linear and where you’ll find important updates on issues in your workspace.

Overview⁠

You'll receive an Inbox notification for key events on your subscribed issues. You are automatically subscribed to issues when you create them, are assigned them, or are mentioned in an issue description or comment.

You cannot customize which notifications go to the Inbox (they all will) but you can customize which ones trigger other alerts in Settings > My Account > Notifications.

View notifications⁠

Find your Inbox in the sidebar. The fastest way to get there is with the keyboard shortcut G then I, which takes you to the Inbox from any page.

Scroll through the notifications in your Inbox using J / K or ↑ / ↓ while on the list or individual notification view.

Click into the notification to view the individual issue in a special Inbox view, from which you can take Inbox actions as well as make changes to the issue.

Inbox actions⁠

From the list view you can take Inbox-related actions such as deleting or snoozing notifications as well as actions to update the issue properties.

Right-click over an issue to bring the contextual menu with available actions.

You can delete notifications with Backspace, delete all with Shift Backspace, or delete all read notifications by using Cmd/Ctrl D.

Select a notification and then use U to mark as read or unread, Option/Alt U to mark all issues as read or unread, and H to Snooze the issue (more below).

To unsubscribe from an issue via the Inbox view, you must click into it first and then unsubscribe use Shift S, the button in the top menu bar, or the unsubscribe option in the Activity feed.

Quick search⁠

Press Cmd/Ctrl F to bring up the quick search bar and then type to filter the list by title, issue ID, notification type, or assignee. It'll update the list to show only issues matching that search. For example, see only notifications where someone commented on an issue or issues that have been auto-closed by Linear. Esc will clear the search.

Display options⁠

Open display options to update what properties are displayed on your notifications. You can toggle Show snoozed or Show read issues.

Because reminders do not hide an issue, there is no toggle in Display options regarding reminders.

Snooze⁠

Snoozing temporarily hides an issue from the Inbox or Triage. At the specified time, it will re-appear as a new notification and unread.

If a new activity occurs before the Snooze time, you will receive an inbox notification for the activity and the Snooze will be canceled.

To be reminded about an issue elsewhere in Linear, use Issue reminders. When setting a reminder, a notification will be sent to the Inbox at the selected time. While Snooze hides issues, setting reminders do not.

Setting Snooze or Reminders⁠

Snooze or set an issue reminder by typing the shortcut H and select one of the default options:

• For an hour
• Until tomorrow
• Until next week
• A month from now
• Next cycle
• Custom...

Custom dates

For custom dates and times, type in the selection instead. Be sure to type the option in full (e.g. next quarter not next quar) otherwise the option will not appear.

• Month Date Time (e.g. Jan 3 10am)
• Next quarter
• Til or until month / date
• For X months / weeks / days

FAQ⁠