How to Record Linear
Record Linear with keyboard overlay to show Cmd+K workflow. Guide for sprint planning, issue triage, and team onboarding recordings.
When you’d need to record Linear
Sprint planning recordings for distributed teams
Record your sprint planning session — triage backlog, set priorities, assign issues, define cycles. Remote team members who missed the meeting watch the recording to understand sprint goals and their assignments.
Linear workflow setup tutorials
Record how your team uses Linear — custom issue states, automated workflows, label conventions, project structure. New team members onboard to your team's Linear workflow in 10 minutes instead of weeks of guessing.
Product roadmap walkthroughs
Record a roadmap view walkthrough for stakeholders. Show projects, timelines, milestones, and dependencies. A recording is more engaging than a static screenshot of the roadmap.
Bug triage and prioritization
Record your triage process — review incoming bugs, check customer reports, set priority (Urgent/High/Medium/Low), assign to engineers. The team sees your prioritization reasoning, not just the final assignment.
Recommended settings
Things to know
- •Linear's keyboard-first design means most actions happen via Cmd+K command palette — invisible without keyboard overlay
- •Issue titles and descriptions may contain confidential product details, customer bug reports, or internal deadlines
- •Linear's sidebar shows all teams and projects — team names often reveal organizational structure
- •Linear loads instantly (SPA) — unlike Jira, page transitions have no loading state, so transitions feel abrupt on video
Step-by-step
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In Screenify Studio, select Window Capture and pick the Linear window.
Enable keyboard overlay — Linear's power is in Cmd+K command palette and single-key shortcuts.
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Open Linear. Collapse the sidebar by clicking the collapse arrow or pressing Cmd+\. The sidebar shows every team and project in your workspace — team names like 'Acquisition Integration' or 'Layoffs Transition' reveal internal structure.
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Filter your view before recording. Use Views or Filters to show only the issues relevant to your recording. An unfiltered backlog with 500 issues is unwatchable. Create a saved view for the recording.
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Review issue titles visible in your view. Titles like 'Fix data leak in payment API' or 'Client: Acme threatening churn' are confidential. Either filter them out or accept they'll be visible.
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Start recording. When creating or editing issues, use the Cmd+K command palette visibly. Linear's keyboard-first workflow is the selling point — recording with mouse-only clicks misses the productivity gains you're demonstrating.
Pro tips
Keyboard overlay is what makes Linear tutorials valuable. Linear's differentiator is keyboard speed — Cmd+K (command palette), C (create), S+1-4 (status), P+1-4 (priority), D (due date). Without overlay, your tutorial shows issues magically changing status and viewers learn nothing about the workflow that makes Linear fast.
Auto-zoom on the issue detail panel. Linear's issue detail view shows title, description, status, priority, assignee, project, labels, and sub-issues in a compact panel. When you change priority from Medium to Urgent, auto-zoom catches the click on the tiny priority dropdown.
Use saved Views for recording. Linear's Views let you filter and save specific issue lists (e.g., 'My assigned bugs this cycle'). Create a view before recording so you show a curated set of issues, not the full 500-item backlog.
Show the Cmd+K palette in action. Type Cmd+K, then start typing an action ('create issue,' 'change status,' 'assign to'). Linear's fuzzy search finds the action instantly. This is the 'wow' moment in Linear tutorials — show it early and often.
Common mistakes
Not using keyboard shortcuts in a Linear tutorial. Recording Linear with mouse clicks only is like demonstrating Vim with only menus. The keyboard workflow IS the product. Enable keyboard overlay and use Cmd+K, single-key shortcuts, and keyboard navigation throughout.
Leaving the sidebar expanded with all teams visible. Your sidebar shows 'Core Product,' 'Growth Experiments,' 'M&A Due Diligence,' 'Secret Project X.' Collapse it with Cmd+\. Expand only when demonstrating navigation, then collapse again.
Showing an unfiltered backlog. 500 issues with mixed priorities, stale items from 6 months ago, and confidential titles. Filter to current cycle, your team, or a specific project before recording.
Moving too fast through Linear's instant transitions. Linear loads pages instantly (no loading spinners like Jira). This means clicking through 5 issues in 3 seconds shows 5 issue pages flashing by. Slow down — click an issue, wait 2 seconds, explain, then move to the next.
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