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Daily-Brief Workflows In Perplexity
A repeatable morning briefing — your beat, with citations — is one of Perplexity's killer applications. Build the routine once and it pays daily.
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- 1The daily-brief problem
- 2daily brief
- 3personal news routine
- 4Spaces
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Section 1
The daily-brief problem
Most people start the day with a chaotic mix of email, Slack, and whatever bubbles up in their feeds. None of that is calibrated to their actual job. A daily brief is the opposite: a consistent, scoped report on the topics you actually need to track, generated in 60 seconds with citations.
Anatomy of a useful brief
- 1Three to five named topics, narrow enough to be actionable
- 2A consistent format: TL;DR per topic, then key items with sources
- 3Time scope ('last 24 hours' or 'since yesterday at 8am')
- 4Filtering instructions (e.g., 'skip product launches, focus on regulation')
- 5An evergreen system prompt you can reuse
Sample brief prompt
Don't let it become a feed
The temptation is to widen the brief — add more topics, add more sources, add a section on tangentially related news. Don't. The brief works because it is narrow. Once it sprawls, you stop reading it, and the discipline that made it useful is gone.
Apply: build it tomorrow
- 1Pick 3 topics that map to a real responsibility you have
- 2Write a system prompt with the format above
- 3Save it as a Space called 'Morning brief'
- 4Run it for one week. Note what you read vs ignored
- 5Tighten the prompt based on what you actually used
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The big idea: a tight, scoped daily brief outperforms 30 minutes of doom-scrolling. Build it as a Space and let it run.
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