Settings & Configuration

Version 3.1 exposes its main output settings in the popup’s expandable Configuration section and on the Batch Export page.

Current defaults

Setting	Default
Save Path	perplexity/
Filename	Current Date – Title
YAML frontmatter	Enabled
Sources and Related Questions	Enabled
Skip exported records	Enabled
Organize files by Space	Enabled
Download user attachments	Enabled
Minimum export delay	1.0 second
Maximum export delay	1.5 seconds

Save Path

Save Path is relative to Chrome’s configured Downloads folder.

Valid:

perplexity
perplexity/research
perplexity/AI-Notes

Invalid:

/Users/name/Documents/Obsidian
C:\Users\name\Obsidian
\\server\share\Obsidian
../Obsidian

The validator rejects absolute paths, Windows drive prefixes, network paths, .., empty path segments, and unsupported special characters.

The extension does not have a separate arbitrary attachment path or a direct “Open in Obsidian” setting. To land inside a vault automatically, set Chrome’s download location to the vault and keep the extension path relative.

Filename options

The current UI exposes four choices:

UI option	Pattern
Current Date – Title	{date}-{title}.md
Title – Current Date	{title}-{date}.md
Original Date – Title	{original_date}-{title}.md
Title – Original Date	{title}-{original_date}.md

The filename utility also understands {uuid} and {timestamp} for stored legacy/custom patterns, but version 3.1 does not expose a free-form pattern editor in the popup or Batch Export interface.

Names are sanitized and capped at a safe length. Chrome Downloads uses uniquify, so an existing filename normally receives a numeric suffix rather than being overwritten.

Browser time zone

Current date, original date, frontmatter dates, and filename preview use the browser’s detected time zone. There is no manual time-zone selector.

YAML frontmatter

YAML can be enabled or disabled as a whole. There is no per-field frontmatter editor in the current UI.

Depending on available source data, version 3.1 can emit:

• title
• created
• updated
• exported
• platform
• url
• sourceUrl
• sourceId
• tags
• messages
• messageCount
• uuid
• model
• mode
• space
• space_slug

Sources and Related Questions

Version 3.1 uses one combined switch: Include Sources and Related Questions.

You cannot independently enable Sources while disabling Related Questions from the current UI.

Sources are deduplicated by URL when possible. Internal pplx:// links are normalized to usable Perplexity URLs or readable labels.

Skip exported records

The extension stores an exported marker and the last activity timestamp.

• never exported: export
• newer activity since previous export: export again
• same or older activity: skip

Clear Cache removes these markers. It does not delete the Markdown already on disk, export history, or failure records.

Organize files by Space

When enabled and a thread belongs to a Space, the Markdown and its companion asset folders are saved beneath a sanitized Space subdirectory.

When disabled, files use the configured Save Path without the additional Space folder.

Download user attachments

For standard current-thread, opened-tabs, and bulk workflows, this setting allows:

• uploaded and returned files under attachments/
• generated images under images/
• relative Markdown links to those files

These links use standard Markdown syntax, not Obsidian wiki links.

Perplexity document-style content may be embedded under Attached Documents rather than downloaded as a separate file.

Important: Custom Export Preview and inline Selective Export produce Markdown only and do not call the companion asset downloader.

Date filter

The Batch Export page can include records active on or after a selected local date. The comparison is based on latest activity when available, making it suitable for incremental backup.

Export delay

Batch Export accepts separate minimum and maximum values from 0.5 to 10 seconds. A randomized delay within the range is inserted between records.

Use the default 1.0–1.5 seconds for a small first run. Increase it if Perplexity begins returning rate-limit errors.

There is no user-facing retry-count, exponential-backoff, debug-mode, Markdown code-style, heading-style, list-style, overwrite, import-settings, reset-all, or automatic-update setting in version 3.1.

Export History, Failure Records, and Export JSON

• Export History retains up to 50 recent operation records.
• Failure Records retains up to 200 local failure entries and can be downloaded or cleared.
• Export JSON exports extension storage, not merely the visible history list.

The JSON may contain settings, activation information, email values, IDs, URLs, titles, and other local or synced data. Review and redact it before sharing.

Subscription settings

Activation uses the checkout email on the Batch Export page. Version 3.1 does not use a license-key field.

See Subscription Activation.