Overview & Getting Started

Perplexity to Obsidian 3.1 exports Perplexity research to local Markdown through Chrome Downloads. It supports standard /search/ conversations, Perplexity Computer Tasks, opened tabs, Perplexity Spaces, selective Q&A export, a full Custom Export Preview, and repeatable batch backups.

Choose an export workflow

Goal	Use this workflow	What it exports
Save the current conversation quickly	Popup → Export Current Thread	Full current thread and, when enabled, companion assets
Review before downloading	Popup → Custom Export Preview	Individually selected prompts and responses as Markdown
Save several already-open conversations	Popup → Export Opened Tabs	Deduplicated supported Perplexity tabs in the current window
Pick complete Q&A pairs in place	Checkbox controls on a /search/ page	Selected Q&A pairs to the clipboard or a -selected.md file
Back up history, tasks, or Spaces	Popup → Go Bulk Export	Selected items or all loaded records from a bulk data source

What the Batch Export page supports

The current page has three data sources:

• All Threads for regular conversation history
• Computer Tasks for supported Perplexity task runs
• From Spaces for one or more selected Spaces

You can filter by last activity date, skip records that have not changed since their previous export, select individual rows, load additional pages, export all records, adjust the delay between requests, cancel a run, and review recent history or failures.

Markdown output

Standard notes use clear sections:

# You

Your prompt

---

# Perplexity

The formatted answer

The converter preserves Markdown headings, lists, links, tables, code blocks, blockquotes, Sources, and Related Questions when the source data is available.

Optional YAML frontmatter can include:

• title, created, updated, and exported times
• platform, source URL, source ID, and UUID
• tags, message count, model, and mode when available
• Space name and slug when applicable

Dates are formatted in the browser’s current time zone.

Attachments, generated images, and documents

When Download user attachments is enabled, standard current-thread, opened-tab, and batch exports can download:

• uploaded or returned files under a sibling attachments/ folder
• Perplexity-generated images under a sibling images/ folder

The note uses normal relative Markdown links and image syntax, not [[Obsidian wiki links]].

Perplexity document-style output may instead be embedded inside the note under Attached Documents. An embedded document is not guaranteed to be downloaded as a separate original file.

Important workflow boundaries

• The extension Save Path is relative to Chrome’s configured Downloads location. It cannot be an arbitrary absolute vault path.
• Inline Selective Export works on standard /search/ pages, not Computer Task pages.
• Custom Export Preview and inline selective export download or copy Markdown only; they do not run the companion-asset downloader.
• The Sources and Related Questions setting is one combined toggle.
• Regular batch export stops when it encounters a 429. Multi-Space processing has a separate 60-second retry wrapper for the current Space.
• Conversation conversion and downloads happen in the browser. Subscription verification and diagnostic or usage events may contact product services.

Free and subscribed use

The Batch Export page limits free users to five conversations per batch. Subscription activation removes that batch limit.

Version 3.1 also contains a locally stored daily-operation check in the popup’s current-thread and opened-tab paths. If the popup displays a free-limit message, activate a subscription or use the options available in the current interface.

Recommended first export

1. Install the extension and refresh an open Perplexity tab.
2. Open a short English test conversation.
3. Expand Configuration in the popup.
4. Keep the default relative Save Path, such as perplexity/.
5. Keep YAML, Sources and Related Questions, Space organization, and attachments enabled if you want a complete backup.
6. Click the current-thread export action.
7. Open the downloaded Markdown in Obsidian and verify any companion folders.

Continue with Installation, Individual Export, or Batch Export.