Recently, Perplexity launched an evolution of Spaces in Perplexity Computer called Projects. Projects are hubs for ongoing work in Computer. It is a single place to manage, create and collaborate on tasks with a shared file system and persistent memory.
Projects in Perplexity Computer
Projects are ideal for running many tasks and workstreams at once, often as a team. When collaborating on a shared Project, every team member works from the same files, context, and skills while personal memory and connectors stay scoped to each person’s account.
Projects use a persistent, hierarchical file system. Upload documents, import folders, or pull files from connected sources, and every task in the Project can build on them. In a shared Project, everyone works from the same source: a teammate’s session can pick up the model your session produced yesterday. Meanwhile, scheduled tasks can maintain a status document no one has to remember to update.
Any user can add files to a Project. Mac and Windows users on the desktop app can also connect local files from their desktop, and these files are only visible to the user who uploaded them and not shared with other users in the Project. Users can also connect Projects to over 400 tools and apps their team needs, including Google Drive, Notion, Linear, Snowflake and GitHub.
Every Project can connect to Brain, Computer’s self-improving memory system. As a result, every subsequent task starts from accumulated understanding and improves. Brain also helps in keeping a Project’s files organised and tasks on track.
How to set up a Project?
Create a Project or convert an existing session into a Project and carry its files and artifacts with it. Tell the computer how to work in this Project, and set the default mode and model for new sessions. Then, enable Computer memory and choose whether it refreshes automatically or on demand.
A customer brief might pull from an Excel model, a Word document, Salesforce data, and a web search. Projects bring those sources together as a foundation for your work: upload or import files, connect the tools your team uses and add a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel.
Adding Project-level instructions gives Computer more context about the overall Project. Skills give Computer reusable instructions for how to work inside a Project. Project instructions hold the Project context while Skills run repeatable processes.
When team members are invited into a Project, everyone works from the same sources, artifacts, automations, and history. Projects organise connected sources without pooling every teammate’s private data into one shared source.
Type /project in a Computer-connected Slack or Teams channel to bind it to a Project, then kick off and manage work with full Project context from web, mobile, or desktop. In a shared channel, anyone can say “Add this thread to the project” to supply context, or “Create a weekly status automation for this channel” to get recurring updates on the work.
Availability
Spaces are now Projects. For users of Spaces, everything carries over, and existing Spaces migrate automatically. Projects are available to all Computer users.
