Product Updates and Changelog
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Blocked and Blocking Tasks
Task cards now show when a task is blocked, or is blocking other work, and a task’s status can be edited while creating. See which tasks are blocked, and what’s blocking them In Linear, you can mark a task as blocking another task, or as blocked by one. LinCal now shows this directly on your…
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How I use Claude Design for product UI decisions
Claude Design left the hype cycle. It never left my workflow. I used it to explore a feature request we get often for LinCal: a way to see more details on a task card. A “comfort” option where the card is bigger and shows more information without having to open it. On the surface, this…
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Detailed Task Cards
Task cards can stay compact, or show label and project names in full. The filter bar is also tighter, and the workspace name now sits next to your avatar. New Display Option: Card detail Linear lets you give labels and projects a color. In LinCal those colors showed up on task cards as small circles…
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Switch Between Linear Workspaces
Sometimes a project outgrows the Linear workspace it started in and gets its own workspace. You can already switch between those workspaces in Linear. From today, LinCal can too. Open the account menu (your avatar) to connect another workspace, or to switch between the ones you already connected, without signing in again. How to connect…
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See the Bigger Picture: Project Dates, Task Sorting, and More Calendar Context
See when projects start and end, spot work outside a project timeline, customize task ordering, show priorities on task cards, and create today’s task with one key. Project Dates on the Calendar Projects now appear as pills on their start and target dates. This makes it easier to see when a project begins, when it…
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Better Task Editing + A Smarter No-Due-Date Bar
LinCal now makes task planning faster with quicker task creation, editable task titles, copyable task links, and a revamped no-due-date bar with search. Faster task creation and editing You can now create tasks faster by typing the task title directly into a calendar day. Press Enter, choose the team and properties, and create the task…
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Easier View Selection + Faster Loading for Large Workspaces
Use views you already created in Linear You can now filter your LinCal calendar by views from Linear. If you already use Linear views to organize work, you do not need to rebuild that setup manually in LinCal. Open the filter menu, select Views, and choose one of your existing Linear views to load the matching…
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Delete tasks + Install as an app
Two small things that make the workflow a smoother. This update lets you delete tasks directly from the calendar, and install LinCal as a standalone app on your computer. Delete Tasks You can now delete tasks directly from the calendar. Drag a task to the trash zone that appears at the bottom right of the…
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A New Chapter for LinCal
After 12 months of working on LinCal, we’re ready to move out of early access. What started as a simple calendar view for Linear has grown into a product now used by more than 100 teams to plan work by date, reschedule tasks, share filtered calendar views, and organize weekly planning. With this update, we’re…
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Linear for Content Teams: A Practical Setup Guide
Linear is built for product teams first. But many content and marketing folks work inside those same organizations, and they use Linear too. With a few small customizations, it works surprisingly well for content work. This post walks through how to structure your content workflow in Linear, from a single content piece all the way…