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Learn all about Linear’s features and how to use them.

Getting Started

Intro to Linear

Before you start using Linear, it’s helpful to know that Linear is purpose-built for product teams. That means that we build it with the needs and best practices of product teams in mind.

Daily workflows

To stay focused every day, we recommend the following routines.

Project planning

Your project overview is the source of truth for your project. It contains everything from your project spec to customer requests, external resources, and ongoing updates.

Managing unplanned work

Triage is your home for managing unplanned work. It works as a central inbox for incoming, unplanned work.

Building with your users

Capturing feedback

Insights and analytics

Cycles

Loops use cases

Database query

Linear runs millions of PostgreSQL queries every day, and even a single inefficient one can degrade performance, or worse, cause an outage. Until recently, this meant that infrastructure engineer Sean Callahan began each day combing through hundreds of healthy queries in Datadog to find the two or three that weren't.

Docs maintenance

Many of the changes we ship to Linear don’t come with the fanfare of a full-blown launch. A bug fix here, a quality-of-life update there, our engineers are predisposed to making small tweaks that might affect how the product works.