I added Perplexity to my local note-taking stack thanks to this one simple feature

I’ve spent much of this year testing out new productivity and note-taking tools. And I’d say about half of them lived up to my expectations, such as AFFiNE. But with so many notes apps on my computer, things can get cluttered and scrambled very fast. It’s just not realistic to hop from app to app; you end up losing track of where all your files live, and in my case, also confuse some apps with others. So having one basic little stack of tools that I can rely on became essential for maintaining a consistent note-taking system. That’s why I settled on this plain text stack.

However, some tools are just too good to leave out of my daily workflow, even if they don’t fit perfectly in my plain text setup. For me, that ended up being Perplexity. The more I used it the more I realized it goes beyond being an AI search engine. It produces research, summaries, comparisons, and quick explanations – and I needed a way to get these threads out of the app and store them somewhere instead of letting them pile up unused. This one Perplexity feature made it way easier than I anticipated it would be…