Everything the board does
StoryMap does one thing: it shows your entire Linear product on a single living board. These are the parts that make that work.
🗺️The Board
Journeys across, slices down
Activities and user journeys form the columns; release slices cut horizontally across the whole product
The whole product on one grid
Hundreds of issues laid out spatially, so the shape of the product is readable in a glance rather than reassembled from six saved views
Every card is a real issue
Click through to Linear — same issue, same identifier, same everything
An editable backbone
Rename, merge, reorder, or remove the columns auto-placement proposed
🔗Linear Integration
OAuth in one click
Sign in with Linear and pick a team — no API keys to paste, no CSV to import
Live by webhook
Status, assignee, estimate, cycle, and project changes land on the board within seconds
Placement only
StoryMap stores where a card sits. Everything else stays in Linear, which remains the source of truth
Nothing to migrate back
Delete your account and no product data is lost — it was never ours to hold
⚡Auto-Placement
Never start from an empty board
Your first map is built from projects, parent/child links, labels, and cycles before you touch anything
Honest about what it guessed
"186 issues found. 147 placed automatically. 39 need review." You correct a map instead of creating one
Proposes, never decides
Clustering suggests the backbone; every placement stays yours to override with a drag
New issues never rot the map
Issues created in Linear arrive in the review tray waiting to be placed
📡Staying Current
Every card reads from Linear
Status, assignee, estimate, cycle, and project are never copied — the board shows what Linear says right now
A missing issue is never deleted work
An issue the read cannot resolve is hidden, not dropped — archive or move it in Linear and its place on the board survives
Nothing to refresh
Come back after a month away and the board is current, because there was never a copy to go stale
Release slices you drew stay yours
Slices are the one thing StoryMap owns; Linear cannot move them and a re-read cannot lose them
What StoryMap deliberately does not do
The refusals are the product. Every one of these would make the board worse.
- — A second backlog to keep in sync
- — A freeform whiteboard with cursors and shapes
- — Jira, Azure DevOps, or Asana integrations
- — Personas, OKRs, feedback portals, or AI-generated PRDs
Try it on your real backlog
The board is worth judging on your own issues, not on a demo workspace.