Start Guide
Linear helps teams plan, track, and deliver work without a lot of overhead. This guide gets you from “new workspace” to “working in Linear” quickly, with a few paths depending on your role.
Get a quick overview
Start here if you want to understand the layout and core workflows before setting anything up.
- Intro to Linear Watch a high-level walkthrough of the Linear environment.
- Demo Linear Explore our demo workspace to see how issues, projects, and workflows fit together.
Note: Changes are local to your browser and reset on refresh. The demo does not include settings, and it does not show or support SLAs. - Live onboarding session Join a guided session to learn the essentials and see common workflows in action
- Learning Library Visit this playlist of onboarding videos covering the most common day-to-day workflows.
Setting up Linear for your organization
Once you’ve seen the basics, the next step is creating a workspace and configuring it for how your team works.
Create your workspace
- Sign up using your work email (recommended).
- Create a workspace for your organization.
Choose the onboarding guide that fits your role
Admins
- How to use Linear: Small teams
- How to use Linear: Startups & mid-size companies
- How to use Linear: Large & scaling companies
Team members
Tips for joining your team on Linear (recommended if you’re new to an existing workspace)
Learn from real examples
If you learn best by seeing how other teams run things, these are good next reads:
- How we run projects
- Continuous planning in Linear
- How we think about customer experience
- Linear for Marketing Teams
- How Descript uses Linear
Join our Slack community
Meet other Linear users to get advice and exchange tips in our Slack community. The Linear team is active in the Slack community as well, so it’s a great place to ask questions.
We host regular events through our Slack community as well, which you can register for here.