How to Use Linear's Home View

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May 12, 2026

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Use this interactive demo to learn how to navigate and customize your Linear Home view.

Quick summary

Linear's Home view is a personalized dashboard that centralizes your assigned tasks, recent activity, and key project updates in one place. You can filter issues, reorder tasks by priority, favorite items for quick access, and manage notification settings directly from this view.

Steps

Open Linear and you will be automatically directed to your Home view.
Use the dashboard to see your assigned tasks, recent activity, and key updates.
Click on an issue to view its details, update status, or add comments.
Drag and drop tasks to reorder them based on priority.
Use filters to adjust what issues and tasks you see in your view.
Favorite projects or issues for quick reference and easy access.
Adjust your notification settings to stay updated without distractions.

📌 Why this matters

Linear's Home view gives engineering and product teams a single, focused workspace to track assigned issues, monitor project activity, and prioritize work without switching between multiple views. By centralizing task management, filtering, and notifications into one dashboard, Linear helps teams reduce context-switching and move faster. For teams evaluating project management tools, the Home view is a key differentiator that makes daily issue tracking and sprint execution significantly more efficient.

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