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Marcel Wiessler

We recently started using for task management. One thing that was missing is converting commit shas to commit links. Made a little service that now does exactly that :)

Another little thing I've added (which didn't come with out of the box) is adding mentions from in linear issues

@marwi How do you like it compared to other task apps?

@johnaustin so one of the driving factors for me was that i wanted something to better manage priorities and get an overview over things in progress

before we used github extensively (and also tried using their projects feature) but some features like linking and grouping issues (in projects) were missing for us. With just issues in repositories i

I've also worked with Asana in a couple of other projects but as i remember those boards quickly became hard to maintain with a lot of tasks

@johnaustin what i specially like is the cycles feature in linear for planning where you get e.g weekly intervals and you assign tasks to those + estimations of how much there is to do

It's also easy to mark issues as "blocked by" or "blocking", they have subissues, milestones and projects for organization and features for saving complex filters (called views)

Then it's also easy to add custom tooling via their sdk (e.g. to automatically create new issues for bugreports from our backend)

@johnaustin In general the linear interface seems very clean and flexible. So far I'm very happy with it and would say it's worth the investment 😊

@marwi Nice! Thanks for the thoughts - I might give it a try. I've now dabbled in most of these tools haha, so I'm curious if this will be better. I feel like every one I used has one feature that makes it better and everything else is shared (and usually one feature completely missing 🙃)

@johnaustin when you do please let me know your verdict too 👀