Whiteboard to Linear — the sprint planning board-to-issue pipeline.

## Why this workflow matters for Linear teams

Linear is the PM tool of choice for many product and engineering teams — it's fast, keyboard-first, and opinionated about how work gets structured. Teams that use it tend to care about low-friction ticket creation.

The gap: the ideas originate on a whiteboard, and getting from board to Linear inbox is a manual typing step. For a 45-minute sprint planning session with 15 items on the board, that's 10-20 minutes of transcription.

BoardSnap compresses that step to about 60 seconds.

## The BoardSnap-to-Linear workflow

1. Snap the planning or kickoff board with BoardSnap
2. Review the action list — items are already in imperative verb form ("Refactor auth module", "Write API docs", "Add rate limiting")
3. Edit inline if needed — rename items to match your Linear naming conventions
4. Share → Copy the text output
5. In Linear: use the quick-create inbox (⌘+K → new issue) or paste into a bulk import

Linear's quick-capture bar is particularly well-suited for this flow — each BoardSnap action item can become a Linear issue in one copy-paste.

## Using Linear's iOS app in the same session

For teams on iPhones, the workflow stays on the device:

1. Snap in BoardSnap
2. Open Linear iOS app
3. Paste action items into new issues

The whole thing — board to Linear — in under two minutes, still in the conference room.

## For power users: automating via Linear API

Linear's GraphQL API supports issue creation. A simple iOS Shortcut can:

1. Accept text from the BoardSnap share sheet
2. Parse each line as an issue title
3. POST to the Linear API with a project ID and team ID

This automates the paste step entirely. The Linear API requires a Personal API key; Shortcuts can store this securely in the Keychain. This is an advanced workflow but takes about 30 minutes to set up and eliminates the last manual step.