Preferences

Make your workspace your own by setting preferences for you and your team.

Personal preferences

Change the following in account settings.

Display

Set your theme: select a preset theme, match your system preference or apply a custom theme. You can update this anytime using Cmd/Ctrl K by searching for the action Change interface scheme. You can also switch between light and dark mode using Ctrl Shift L.

Reduce motion and animations.

Display full names instead of usernames of your team members when they show up in the app.

Behavior

Set a default home view: Choose between Active Cycle, Active issues, Inbox, My Issues, Board or custom views.

Developer preview: Enable experimental features as we roll them out in beta.

Auto-assign to self: This will set you as the assignee for any new issues you create, no matter what team you create the issues under.

Git-related preferences: Toggle automations to move an issue to in progress or auto-assign to self when you use the git branch copy action. This will save you a few clicks.

Open links in a new window: Set the app to always open external links in a new window.

Team preferences

Change team preferences under your team's individual settings page.

How to access

Go to general settings and find the team name. Alternatively, click on the more menu (three dots) that shows up when you hover over the team name in the sidebar.

When creating new a new team, you can choose to copy over settings from another team to save you time.

Team-based settings

Name and Key: The key is the prefix for your issues. We recommend using short ones and default to create one that is 3-characters long.

Timezone: This is especially helpful for cycles, since they begin at midnight in the specified timezone.

Pull Requests: Set preferences for what actions should happen upon the opening, review or merging of a pull request.

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While pull request automations are team-based, the Github and Gitlab integrations are workspace-based. This means that if you update pull request automations, it will update only for your team.

Estimates: Set estimates. Learn more about Estimates.

Slack notifications: Set up Slack notifications in a dedicated channel. Learn more about our Slack integration.

Disable issue history grouping: By default, we automatically group updates when they occur within an hour. You can opt-in to our premium feature to record every change.

Keyboard Shortcuts

G then S Open settings

Ctrl Shift L to switch between light and dark modes

Did we miss something? Have a question? Email us at hello@linear.app to let us know.