Save a Perplexity research thread to Markdown for your notes

Why Markdown for research notes

Perplexity is a smaller player in the US, but a real one: in September 2026, it sent 3.02% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites, according to Statcounter. Its answers are often long, structured and full of lists, which is exactly what plain copy-paste tends to flatten.

Markdown is plain text with light formatting: # for headings, - for lists, ** for bold. Most notes apps understand it, and it stays readable even where they don't.

Copy and paste, and its limits

You can select a Perplexity answer and paste it into your notes. For one answer, that's fine. For a whole thread, it's slow, the formatting can come out uneven, and it's easy to miss a follow-up in the middle.

Save the thread in one click

Uncook's Export saves the whole thread as Markdown, PDF or plain text. On the Perplexity page, click the Uncook icon and pick Export, then choose Markdown. Paste or import the file into your notes app.

Export is free, and it doesn't count as a task. It runs in your browser: the thread isn't sent to our servers.

Then: summarize or merge it

• Too long to keep as is? Summarize gives you the essentials of the thread.
• Writing it up in ChatGPT or Claude? Merge brings the Perplexity thread and your writing chat together into one prompt.

Questions people ask

Does it keep Perplexity's sources? Open the exported file and check that the links you need are present and still work before you rely on them.

Does it work for ChatGPT and Claude too? Yes. Use Export with a supported ChatGPT or Claude chat open in desktop Chrome.

Which notes apps take Markdown? Many do. If yours doesn't, choose plain text or PDF instead.