Notifications

Enable notifications to get alerts on important issue updates.

Overview

All issue notifications go to your Linear Inbox. You can optionally configure desktop push notifications, personal Slack notifications, and email digests. Desktop notifications work for macOS or Windows and when using most browsers.

Configure

Go to Preferences > Notifications to enable notifications for desktop, Slack, and email.

You'll see a list of notification triggers as well as checkboxes next to them for email and desktop notifications. Options for Slack will appear once the integration has been enabled (see our Slack documentation for instructions).

Basics

Notification triggers

From your notification settings, you'll see the below list of issue updates and options to customize their associated notifications for desktop, email, or Slack:

• You’re assigned an issue
• You're unassigned from an issue
• You're mentioned in an issue
• A reaction is added to a comment you wrote
• You're reminded of an issue
• An issue is at risk of breaching SLA
• An issue breached SLA
• Assigned issue is marked as urgent or blocking
• An issue you're assigned is unblocked
• An issue you're assigned is due
• An issue you subscribe to is marked completed or canceled
• A comment is made in an issue you subscribe to
• A view you have notifications on for has a new issue in the view, triage or a completed/canceled status

You will also see options to configure notifications for projects and teams you are subscribed to. You can manage your team and project subscriptions from here or you can manage project subscriptions from within each individual project. Read more about project notifications in our documentation here.

You can toggle on or off emails for Linear Changelogs or privacy and legal updates here.

Subscriptions

You'll receive inbox notifications for all subscribed issues. You're automatically subscribed to issues when you create them, are assigned an issue, are @mentioned in an issue comment or description, or if you use the menu in the Activity section to subscribe manually.

To manage subscriptions, open issues individually and then press Shift S to subscribe or Cmd/Ctrl Shift S unsubscribe. View all subscribed issues under My Issues > Subscribed.

Timing

Desktop and Slack notifications are sent in real-time. Email digests are designed with time delays based on urgency and are only sent if you haven't already read the notification.

Email digests

Email digests send a summary of unread notifications. They're configured to send out after a certain amount of time has elapsed depending on properties such as issue status. We send near immediate email updates when you've been assigned an urgent issue or if an issue you're assigned is marked urgent.

Low priority email notifications are by default not sent out outside of working hours and on the weekends. You will receive the email digest at the start of the next work day. The default can be changed in the notification settings page.

Advanced

Snooze

To snooze Inbox issues or set a reminder, type the shortcut H and then select a deafult option or customize your own date and time. Hide or show Snoozed Inbox items in Display Options and see all Snooze options in our documentation here.

Project updates

Subscribe to these to receive an Inbox notification whenever an issue in your project is created, a comment is made on a project issue, or a project issue is marked completed or canceled.

Team updates

You can receive an Inbox notification whenever issues are created in your team. We don't really recommend this notification, since it can get noisy, and instead recommend setting up Slack channel notifications for your team which will send updates without clogging up your Inbox.

View Subscriptions

If you'd like to be notified when new issues meet a set of view criteria, consider subscribing to the view. You can also be notified when an issue in a view is completed or canceled. You can subscribe to custom, user and label views personally, or send notifications to a Slack channel.

Manage personal notifications from account settings under Labels, Users and Views, and Slack channel notifications from the View menu pictured.

Slack channel notifications

We have a separate integration with Slack that lets you push team or project updates to a specific Slack channel. You can manage these from your notification settings page, team settings, or the bell from specific project pages. Learn more and how to set them up in our Slack documentation.

FAQ

My notifications are enabled. Why am I not receiving them?

If you have Linear open in multiple tabs or both the Desktop and website app open, it's possible that notifications are sent to one but not the other. The workaround is to only use one version of Linear at a time. If none of those apply, please reach out to our support team.

If you're a Safari user, see the Q&A about notifications for browsers. Unfortunately, Safari does not support Push API which we use to send desktop notifications.

Do notifications work on all browsers?

Notifications should work on evergreen browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Brave. Browser notifications do not work for Safari; we use Push API, which is not supported by the browser. If you're a Safari user, we recommend using our desktop application instead.

How can I re-enable notifications if I disabled them in my browser?

If you disabled them in the browser you might need to go through your browser settings and clean up the site preferences. If you're using Chrome, update settings here: chrome://settings/content/notifications?search=notifications and then re-enable in Linear.

Why isn't the red badge showing up on the Linear icon in my dock?

Please check that you've enabled notifications for Linear in the macOS settings as well as marked to show the red badge icon.