Linear
Create Linear issues from email
Turn any email into a Linear issue in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Josh Whitfield
Export to CSV crashes the app
Your instructions
Raise this as an urgent bug in the Mobile team, assigned to Amara.
Linear
Raise a bug for the export crash
Mobile team, urgent, for Amara
You receive a confirmation email once complete, with an undo button that works for 24 hours.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "raise this as an urgent bug in the Mobile team, assigned to Amara".
The issue is created in the team from your instructions with the email's contents in the description, assigned and prioritised from the same line.
You receive a confirmation email containing a link to the new issue, plus an undo button if something doesn't look right.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
FAQs
- How do I create a Linear issue from an email?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "raise this as an urgent bug in the Mobile team, assigned to Amara". ForwardThis creates the issue and replies with a link. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with Linear connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- Which team does the issue go to?
- Whichever your instructions name, and with only one team, ForwardThis uses it without asking.
- Can it set the priority, assignee and labels?
- Yes. Your instructions can set the priority, assignee, labels and description when the issue is created, and can even make it a sub-issue of an existing one.
- Can it attach the email's files to the issue?
- Yes. Say so in your instructions and the files go on with it; the confirmation lists each one.
- Can Linear create issues from email on its own?
- It can, through Linear Asks on Linear's paid plans, which turns emails to a dedicated address into issues for triage. The difference is that ForwardThis works on any plan and takes instructions in plain words: the team, priority and assignee are set from your instructions, and the reply links to the issue.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly in case you press undo, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.