As part of my personal project workflow, whether thats development or something else, I use a combination of Obsidian and Linear to plan and document everything that I work on. Ideas start out in Obsidian, and tasks end up in Linear. The workflow allows me to keep a good separation between planning tools and means I can have the flexibility of Linear without trying to make Obsidian into something its not.
One thing I've felt missing from that workflow is the ability to easily add in Linear links to issues with addition context. It becomes a laborious, manual process when you're coping who is assigned, any deadlines, status, etc. Even more so when you take into account maintaining both Linear, and the version copied into Obsidian.
To get around that, I've made a plugin for Obsidian that allows for the linking of Linear issues in Obsidian with simple markup that provides additional information automatically. Adding a ticket reference to the document, like [AMP-1], will bring across and embed that issue into an article so you can see assignee, title, and status at a glance.
Embeds are presented in two ways:
- Cards are used when presenting issue markup in its own space where there is no text or content either-side of it, nor is it part of another block.
- Inline issues are shown when the markup is used as part of another block, such as a paragraph, list item and so on.
The plugin can be found on GitHub. While currently, I don't have this added to the community plugins list, it will eventually once I can be certain there are no critical issues in the current version.
I also have several features and updates planned for future updates.
- Tabular view with several issues being added to a view.
- A GraphQL block to allow for custom queries using the Linear API.
- Ability to update and change your issues from within Obsidian.
- Creation of Issues from within Obsidian.
- Sync of to-dos with issues and the issues themselves.
- And much more.
Of course there will be other refinements and improvements made over time.