Priority

Set issue priority to indicate which issues to complete first.

Overview⁠

Priority is an optional property for Linear issues to signify to your team the urgency of the issue. Issues can be set to No priority, Low, Medium, High, or Urgent.

We don’t have the option to set custom priorities or more granular priorities since it’s easy to get carried away with specificity. Adding too many options makes it harder to set priority and leads to diminishing returns. If more granularity is needed, the best workaround is to create additional workflow statuses or use labels.

Set priority⁠

Select one or more issues in an issue view, press P, and choose a priority. Use the shortcut again to change or remove it.

Priority ordering⁠

On any view ordered by priority, simply drag & drop an issue or project above other ones to indicate it is more important. The exact position will be saved globally across your workspace, so that anyone else looking at a view ordered by priority will see these issues or projects in the same relative positions. By default, items without an assigned priority level are now always sorted last. Priority ordering also applies to projects. For project-specific guidance, see Project priority.

Urgent Notifications⁠

When an issue is marked as Urgent, Linear notifies the assignee and, if email notifications are enabled, also sends an urgent email notification.