Plans 💳 : Premium, Unlimited, Unlimited+
User Permissions 👥: Employees*, Managers*, Admins
Overview
If your team builds in Linear and logs hours in Timely, this integration keeps everything aligned—no duplicate setup, no manual copying, no “wait, what did I work on today?” moments.
It aligns your real development work so you can easily reference what happened, when. Whether you’re organizing across dev teams or just logging time to the right issue, everything stays connected between the tools you actually use.
Table of Contents
🙋 FAQs
🔌 Connecting Timely to Linear - Workspace Admin
Head to Settings > Ecosystem in Timely
Choose the Linear option from the Next-Gen Integrations section
⚠️ Don't see a Next-Gen Integrations section? This feature is slowly rolling out, reach out to us via [email protected] and we'll help you get started!
Click the Connect workspace with Linear button and then Authorize when prompted to connect
Next you'll want to select or confirm the Linear workspace you'd like to connect and then click the Next button to proceed
⚠️ This integration supports the selection of one Linear workspace to connect at present
Next you'll be prompted to confirm the sync configuration for this integration
The default and suggest settings are pre-set:
Create Memories from Linear Issue and Project events
Create Projects from Linear projects
Log time against Linear Issues without task creation
Create Tags from Linear labels
Every organization, every team selected for synchronization
Linear changes will be synced to Timely in real-time
If needed, you can click the Change Settings button to fine tune these options
If everything looks good, go ahead and click the Synchronize with Linear button to finalize
It may take a few minutes for the initial sync to complete, you can click the Continue while import runs in the background button and work normally while this completes
Otherwise, go ahead and click Complete Linear Setup button to wrap things up
That’s it on the setup side! From here, each user in your workspace will need to connect their own Linear account to take full advantage of the integration and start seeing their activity reflected in Timely.
🔌 Connecting Timely to Linear - Personal Integration (Employees, Managers)
Log into your Timely workspace and navigate to the Settings > Ecosystem area
In the Next-Gen Integrations category you'll see the Linear option
Click the "Authenticate with Linear" button to proceed
Next, you'll be prompted to approve the necessary permissions that allow your Linear activity to flow into Timely. Click the Authorize button to confirm
✅ You're all set! It may take several minutes for the initial sync to take place, you can click the "Continue while import runs in the background" button to return to the Ecosystem tab and work normally while this process completes.
🔁 Items synced in from the Linear integration
Linear item | Appears in Timely as |
Organization | Client |
Team | Client |
Project | Project |
*Issue | *Activity Reference |
*Sub-issue | *Activity Reference |
Label | Tag (optional) |
*Issues / Sub-issues
The current Linear integration lets you log hours directly to Issues and Sub-issues from Linear—no special setup required. These appear in Timely as reference points when logging time, so you can track exactly where your effort went without any hassle.
👀 In the future, we may expand the integration to support full issue and sub-issue sync as Tasks in Timely. Stay tuned—we’re just getting started!
🧠 Memories created from your Linear activity
Whenever you take action in Linear, Timely can turn that activity into a Memory, helping you accurately recall how your day was spent and making time logging a breeze.
Here’s what generates a Memory in Timely:
🆕 Creating or updating a Linear issue
💬 Adding or editing a comment
📋 Updating a project
🔄 Creating or updating a Cycle (sprint)
🌐 Visiting any linear.app page
📋 Logging time against Linear issues
Once connected, Linear issues are available when logging time in Timely:
Search for issues directly in the time entry form
Select the issue you worked on
Log your time as usual
The issue stays a reference, not a task—perfect for teams who want accurate time tracking without cluttering Timely with hundreds of dev tickets.
These references appear as the Linked Work option in AutoSheet or the Attach a Task option when logging on the Classic timeline.
🗑️ Removing the Linear integration
Moving away from Linear as your source of truth? No problem, disconnecting the integration just takes a few clicks.
The admin who originally set up the connection can head to Settings > Ecosystem in Timely, select Linear, then click Settings followed by Disconnect. You’ll be asked to confirm—just click Disconnect again to finalize.
Heads up: any imported objects will remain in Timely after disconnection. They won’t be automatically deleted.
🙋 FAQs
Does Timely send anything back to Linear?
This initial release of the integration includes one-way sync FROM Linear TO Timely. In the future we'll be exploring additional sync capabilities—stay tuned for more!
Do I need the Tasks add-on to use the Linear integration?
Nope! This initial version of the Linear integration doesn’t import issues or sub-issues as Tasks in Timely—it’s all about letting you log time against existing Linear work. The Tasks add-on isn’t required.
I’ve set up the Linear integration—do I still need the Memory app?
Absolutely. While the Linear integration brings in key activities from Linear, it likely won’t capture everything you worked on throughout the day. That’s where the Memory app shines—it runs quietly in the background to log all your activity across apps and tools, giving you the full picture when it’s time to log your hours.
What’s the deal with fallback clients? Why are some projects showing up under the wrong client?
Timely uses fallback logic when it can’t confidently map a Linear project to a selected team—for example, if a project belongs to multiple teams or a team wasn’t selected during setup. In those cases, the project is assigned to a fallback client in Timely.
You can always manually move a project to the correct client afterward from the project settings in Timely.
Do project or issue status changes in Linear sync to Timely?
Not at this time. Archiving or completing a project in Linear won’t archive or complete it in Timely. However, if you interact with an archived issue, you may still see updates reflected in Timely on an item-by-item basis.
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