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Use Perplexity for Serious Research with Real Citations

Perplexity is the only major AI tool that gives you citations you can actually check. For any research task where accuracy matters — business cases, reports, academic work, or journalism — it's the starting point that keeps your work defensible.

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Perplexity Research Workflow

Help me set up a rigorous Perplexity research workflow.

Research topic: [WHAT YOU'RE RESEARCHING]
Required freshness: [Last 30 days / Last 6 months / Last year / Any]
Output format: [Summary / Bullet points / Source list / Full analysis]
Credibility standard: [Academic sources only / Any reputable source / Any source]

Design my research workflow:
1. The starting query (broad enough to orient, specific enough to be useful)
2. 3 follow-up queries to go deeper on the most important findings
3. The focus mode to use for each query (Web / Academic / News / YouTube)
4. How to validate the 3 most important claims from the results

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How it works

1
Start with an orienting query, then go narrow — broad searches miss key specifics
2
Always check the citation dates and domains before using a claim
3
Use Academic focus mode for claims that need peer-reviewed sourcing
4
Import your curated citations into NotebookLM for deeper synthesis

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