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
Zoom without losing the thread
Zoom out to see the entire product at once, zoom in to read individual issues
Every card is a real issue
Click through to Linear — same issue, same identifier, same everything
Nested activities
Group related steps under an activity when a column gets crowded
🔗Linear Integration
OAuth in one click
Sign in with Linear and pick a team or project — 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. 153 placed automatically. 33 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 an inbox waiting to be placed
📡Staying Current
Done work collapses
Shipped issues compress visually so the map shows what is left, not what was
Current cycle highlighted
This cycle's work lights up; blocked issues are obvious at a glance
Release slice progress
Each horizontal slice carries a live completion percentage straight from Linear
Filters that match how you think
By assignee, label, cycle, or project — without leaving the spatial view
👀Sharing
Read-only links
Send the map to anyone — execs, support, a customer — without giving them a Linear seat
Viewers are free
Priced per workspace, so looking at the board never costs anything
Presentation mode
Run the product review off the board itself instead of a screenshot in a deck
Always the current version
A shared link cannot go stale — it renders the same live data you see
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.