An idea for a fix or a feature shows up mid-conversation, and by the time you’ve opened a form and started typing it’s half gone. With Clavio you just say it. Hit C to open a new issue in Linear, and while your cursor sits in the title, speak it — the summary first, then the whole description: what’s broken, how to reproduce it, what “done” looks like. A light, natural polish shapes your speech into clean sentences a teammate can act on, and nothing is filed behind your back: Clavio fills the fields and stops, so you set the priority and label and press create yourself. The same voice writes the comment, the status update, and the Slack ping — the whole tracking loop becomes something you say while the thought is still warm.
Catch the idea the second it lands — right in the issue
Linear is built for speed: you press C, the new-issue view snaps open, and your cursor is already in the title. Clavio keeps that pace instead of breaking it. Give Clavio a wake word or a hotkey, say it (or tap the key once), and start talking — the summary drops into the title, and you keep going into the description below. There’s no window to open and nothing to hold down while you speak, so the gap between “I just thought of this” and “it’s a tracked issue” closes to about the length of one sentence. That’s the whole point of a fast tracker, extended to your voice.
Natural tone, because your team reads these
An issue title and description are read by a teammate who’ll pick up the work, a reviewer scanning the backlog, and the you of three sprints from now. So keep Clavio on a natural polish for Linear: it clears the “um,” the “so basically,” and the false starts, and shapes your speech into clean sentences — without rewriting what you meant or flattening how you put it. You still sound like yourself, just tidier and easier to triage. Add your team prefixes, project names, feature names, and teammate handles to Clavio’s dictionary, and identifiers and @-mentions come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Auto-send stays off — you’re filling fields, not firing a message
A Linear issue isn’t a chat message you send and forget — it’s a structured record with a title, a description, a priority, a label, an assignee. That’s exactly why you keep Clavio’s auto-send off here. Clavio types the summary into the title and the full write-up into the description, then waits: you read it back, set priority and labels, pick an assignee or a project, and hit create when it’s ready. Speaking a complete description — context, repro steps, acceptance criteria, all in one breath — is hands-free; deciding it’s ready to file stays a deliberate keystroke. You get the speed of dictating a long, thorough issue and none of the risk of a half-formed one landing in the backlog.
One voice for the whole tracking loop
The issue is one stop on the loop. Dictate the issue when the idea is fresh, drop a comment when you’ve dug into it, speak the status update that keeps the team in the loop — all in the same natural voice, right in Linear. Then, when the work starts, switch to GitHub and dictate the PR that closes it; when a teammate pings you about it, answer in Slack in a casual tone; when it’s time to merge, speak the commit into your git app. Clavio remembers the tone per app, so one wake word carries you from issue to comment to PR to chat — and because it only answers to your voice, someone talking nearby never files a stray ticket. That’s the whole tracking loop, end to end, spoken instead of typed.
Recommended Clavio settings for Linear
| Setting | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Wake word or hotkey | Linear has no name to talk to, so trigger with a wake word or a single key — cursor already in the title, then just speak. |
| Polish level | Natural (light polish) | Issues are read by teammates and future-you — natural clears filler and tidies your sentences without changing your meaning. |
| Auto-send | Off | You’re filling a title and a structured description, not sending a message. Clavio fills the fields and waits so you set priority and create it yourself. |
| Personal dictionary | Add teams, projects, handles | Keeps team prefixes, project and feature names, and @-mentions spelled right instead of guessed at. |
| Max dictation length | Set it generous | A good description — context, repro steps, acceptance criteria — runs long, so give yourself room and nothing gets cut off mid-thought. |
Capture Linear issues by voice with Clavio
Clavio is an AI dictation app for Mac. It sits in your menu bar and types finished text wherever your cursor is — a Linear issue title, its description, a comment, plus GitHub, Slack, and email. For Linear you set a light natural polish so issues read clean for your team, and keep auto-send off so Clavio fills the fields and waits while you set priority, labels, and assignee and press create yourself. A personal dictionary keeps your team prefixes, project, and feature names intact, and an on-device voiceprint means only your voice sets it off. Free to try: 3,000 words a month, no card, macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon. Pro is £12/month for unlimited.
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Common questions
Does Linear have its own voice input?
Linear has no built-in voice input. Your Mac has a dictation feature you can switch on, but it drops raw words into the field with no cleanup and no sense of what an issue is. Clavio adds a light natural polish so titles and descriptions read clean for your team, keeps your team prefixes and project names straight, and leaves priority, labels, and the create button to you — so the issue comes out ready to file.
Can I capture a whole issue hands-free?
You can speak the whole thing hands-free — trigger with your wake word or hotkey, then say the title and the full description, repro steps and all, with nothing to hold down. Auto-send stays off on purpose, so Clavio fills the fields and waits: you set the priority, label, and assignee and press create yourself. Speaking the issue is hands-free; filing it stays one deliberate keystroke.
Will it mangle our project names or ticket prefixes?
Natural polish tidies filler and shapes your sentences without rewriting your meaning. To keep identifiers exact, add your team prefixes, project and feature names, and teammate handles to Clavio’s dictionary — then those names and @-mentions come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Why keep auto-send off for Linear?
Because a Linear issue is a structured record, not a message you fire off. With auto-send off, Clavio types the summary into the title and the write-up into the description, then stops — you set priority and labels, pick an assignee or project, and hit create when it’s ready. Dictating is hands-free; filing stays a deliberate choice.
Can I use the same voice beyond Linear?
Yes — that’s the point of a system-wide app. Clavio types into the issue, the comment, and the status update the same way it types into your GitHub PR, Slack, git commit, and email, and remembers the tone per app: natural for Linear, casual for chat. One wake word carries the whole tracking loop.