🎥 Perplexity: Beginner to Pro in 27 Minutes (Full Tutorial + Best Practices)
If you learn Perplexity properly, you will get faster, more accurate answers than Google and more reliable results than a casual ChatGPT query. In this step-by-step guide I compress hundreds of hours of trial & error into a practical workflow you can use every day – from smart search to Deep Research, Labs dashboards/pages, Spaces projects, and pro settings that actually matter. Everything you see also works inside Perplexity’s agentic browser, Comet.
What you will master
– Perplexity 101: Chat vs. Deep Research vs. Labs – when to use each
– Model selection: Sonar, GPT/Claude options, image/voice, and why results differ from ChatGPT
– Sources & citations: toggling sources, site-scoped research, fact-checking, and follow-ups
– Pro settings that matter: personalization (Introduce Yourself), memory, data retention, connectors, watchlists
– Finance & Sports hubs: earnings, screeners, tickers, and live discussion with data
– Labs: turn findings into dashboards/pages you can publish and share
– Spaces: organize trips, projects, or research with team sharing & instructions
– Automation basics: tasks, notifications, and how to think about the API vs connectors
– Comet preview: how the same workflows translate to the AI browser
Chapters
00:00 Perplexity AI
00:51 Navigation & Settings
05:54 Chat Features & Scheduled Tasks
11:09 Deep Research
15:19 Perplexity Labs
19:37 Perplexity Pages
22:01 Spaces Functionality
Who this is for
Analysts, product/marketing folks, students, and knowledge workers who want an everyday answer engine that can also create publishable research pages and organized project hubs.
Link to Prompts
– Personalization Prompt:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b0zyBwCREvWSeJs1RqDTzrEDcCKMM4AtbE5_cp-YfOY/edit?usp=sharing
– Deep Research Prompt:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jr4R2Qkmg2VRTfEMxgs5me49H0zaFK1bkXbq-Ydhit0/edit?usp=sharing
– Labs Prompt:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jteoz_8Vs2fyudoRiH-3a1HH7pxw3DMMN9C06tPzgxk/edit?usp=sharing
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