What is Perplexity Tasks?
Perplexity Tasks helps you stay on top of what you care about most with powerful custom alerts, reminders and reports.
You can create personalized tasks on any topic or question, tailored to your preferred schedule and easily adjust them from the Notifications panel as your needs change. Receive regular updates via email or push notification—each Task is automatically saved as a Thread in your History for instant access and seamless management. Simplify your workflow and never miss an important update with Tasks.
How many Tasks can I create?
Pro and Max subscribers can create a maximum of ten tasks.
Enterprise Pro users can have 30 active scheduled tasks, 25 price alert tasks, 5 research tasks, and 5 create files and apps tasks.
Enterprise Max users can have 40 active scheduled tasks, 25 price alert tasks, 10 research tasks, and 10 create files and apps tasks.
You can delete or pause a Task at any time.
Setting up Tasks
Setting up Tasks from Notifications
Click on your profile icon on the left sidebar and click on Notifications
2. Enter your prompt in the input box and hit the arrow icon for next steps. Alternatively, click on the ➕ New Task button to open the task creation modal.
3. In the modal, use Schedule to specify your preferred cadence and time. Select from Once, Daily, Weekly, Every weekday, Monthly, or Yearly and select your preferred trigger time, then click Save.
Setting Tasks from Spaces
You can also create and manage scheduled tasks within Spaces. This will allow you to better organize your research, and run tasks on the context set in your Space, including files and specific domains.
Anyone with access to the Space can view and get notified about new Threads, which makes task-generated Threads more collaborative.
To create a new Task from a Space:
Select the Space tasks button, in the top-right corner of the Space
Click + Create.
Enter your prompt in the Instructions box, and set up a schedule, notification settings, search mode, model preference, and sources.
Once you’ve filled out the Task settings, click Save.
Your Task is now live. You can edit or delete it by clicking Space Tasks > Task actions > Edit or Delete.
Using Tasks with Perplexity Create files and apps
You can set-up recurring Create files and apps projects and set a schedule (for example, Every weekday, for tasks you want to only run Monday through Friday). Result emails are optimized to let you see a summarized version of the response for when you’re on the go.
Updating or deleting Tasks
To edit, delete or pause a task, click into the specific Task to open up the creation modal. From there you can make changes, delete or pause the Task (toggle off).
Receiving your alerts for scheduled Tasks
When it's time for your alert to trigger, you will be notified via email or push notification if you have those enabled - please check that notifications are allowed for Perplexity within your browser settings.
The email notification will show Perplexity Tasks as the sender and will show a quick summary of the task plus a link to a Thread where you can see the full response. The Thread will also be automatically saved to your History for easy access.
