Everhour adds weekly timesheets and capacity planning to Linear work, keeping planned load and reviewed hours connected.
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Use this page when the next Linear issue needs an owner and the assignment competes with work already planned across projects. Start with each person's weekly availability, then compare it with the load already assigned to that person. The useful output is a clear view of who has room, who is close to the limit, and which project absorbs the tradeoff.
Linear keeps the issue context readable: project, assignee, status, priority, labels, and cycle. Capacity planning adds a second layer: available hours, planned hours, scheduled time off, and the tracked time that shows whether earlier assignments were realistic. The decision becomes specific enough to act on before the team accepts more work or shifts delivery expectations.
Build the view from four inputs: each person's weekly capacity, scheduled time off, assigned planned hours by project or issue, and actual tracked time from recent work. Weekly capacity should match full-time, part-time, or custom schedules. Planned hours should sit on the work the person owns. Actual time should stay separate until review, so current assignments are based on visible commitment and past delivery.
Use the same week boundary for everyone. A person with 32 available hours and 26 planned hours has 6 hours of space before other commitments enter the plan. A person with 32 available hours and 38 planned hours needs work moved, delayed, or split. The assignment decision should name the project losing capacity, since overload usually shifts cost and schedule somewhere else.
Overload appears when planned hours for the week exceed the person's available capacity after scheduled time off. Read the signal per person first, then by project, because a project total can look reasonable while one engineer carries the risk. Issue count is a weak proxy: two issues can consume one hour or a week, depending on scope and interruptions.
Capacity also needs a reality check after work starts. Compare planned load with actual tracked hours by issue or project, then adjust future assignments where the pattern repeats. A recurring 12-hour plan that regularly takes 18 tracked hours should change the next plan. Treat the correction as planning data. The goal is a schedule the team can deliver.
A one-off view works when you need a quick answer for the next assignment: available hours, planned hours, and visible overload for the current week. It is enough for a small team with a short date range, stable availability, and a manager who only needs to rebalance work before planning ends.
A managed workflow matters once weekly plans affect billing, payroll review, or project commitments. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted entries before those hours feed reports. That creates a durable loop: Linear issues hold the work context, planned load sets the target, and reviewed tracked hours correct the next project plan.
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Start with the assignee's available hours for the same week, subtract already planned issue work, and then check project priority. The right owner has enough remaining capacity and the right context. The person with the fewest assigned issues can still be overloaded if those issues carry large planned hours or sit across several active projects.
Count the hours a person is available to commit during that week after time off and schedule differences. Full-time, part-time, and custom weekly capacity need separate values. Include recurring work that takes real time, such as support rotation or review work; otherwise the team assigns issue work into hours that already have a job.
Use effort points as relative size signals rather than clock time. Linear issue estimates can use Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt scales, and those values describe effort or size for the team. Capacity planning needs planned hours against weekly availability. A team can map points to planning hours internally, but the mapping must stay explicit and consistent.
Fix overload that blocks committed project work, threatens a due date, or sits with a person who has no remaining availability in the current week. A 2-hour excess can wait if it belongs to flexible cleanup work. A 6-hour excess on a release-critical issue needs reassignment, scope reduction, or a changed delivery date.
Actual tracked hours expose where assigned work regularly takes more or less time than the plan allowed. Review the variance by person, project, and issue type, then adjust future planned hours or break work into smaller issues. A plan improves when repeated evidence changes the next estimate instead of being treated as a one-time exception.
Everhour Timesheets give managers a weekly review layer for Linear project work: people submit project hours or working hours, and managers approve, reject, partially approve, or lock entries before those entries support reports, billing review, or payroll review. That keeps capacity corrections tied to reviewed time instead of informal status updates.
Everhour Resource Planning shows workload on visual timelines with member and project views, weekly capacity per person, scheduled time off, and overload highlighting. Managers can create assignments against a project or task, a client, or time off, then compare planned capacity with actual tracked time.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly project and working hours, review submitted time, and lock approved entries, so Linear capacity plans stay grounded in reviewed time.
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