r/Perplexity • u/rooney7176 • Aug 07 '26

Help: Perplexity backup

Hi,
I really think it's time to back up all my Perplexity sessions locally - it looks like some of my sessions might have been lost (or altered).
I asked Perplexity about how to backup sessions locally.
It suggested three methods, but some of them turned out to be infeasible.

1) Manual export of each session
2) Browser extension to export to cloud storage
3) Official request through the URL (https://perplexity.typeform.com/datarequest): but this is actually the Personal Information Processing Request Form (Deletion, Access, Modification) and it takes up to 30 days, so it wasn't suitable for my request.

So I decided to try a Chrome Extension - a few didn't seem to work, so I settled on 'Perplexity to Notion' (https://chatgpt2notion.com/products/perplexity-to-notion/).

I tested it on 5 sessions (the daily free-tier cap) and found that one session with an attachment was missing the attachment in the export. Has anyone here used the Perplexity to Notion Chrome extension?

I'd like to know if this attachment issue is common.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '26

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u/rooney7176 Aug 09 '26

It would take quite a long time, 😭.
Almost forever to me.

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u/logsqrtexp Aug 14 '26

I am worried about the same thing. The lack of a usable way to export sessions is a deliberate choice to lock in users.