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If you use Perplexity as your default research tool, you've probably built up a handful of prompts that reliably get better answers — the phrasing that makes it cite primary sources instead of blogspam, the format that returns a clean comparison table, the follow-up that forces it to double-check a claim. The problem is that none of it is saved anywhere searchable. It's scattered across old Threads, a notes doc, or your memory — and retyping it every time you start a new search is the tax you pay for not having a library.
PromptDock is a free Chrome extension that fixes this with one habit: type // in the Perplexity search box, and a searchable palette of your saved prompts opens right there. Pick one, it's inserted, you hit enter. No tab-switching, no copy-paste, no account required.
Perplexity's Library tab keeps a history of your past searches and Threads, and Spaces let you group related research together with a standing focus. Neither one is a prompt manager. Library is a record of what you already asked, organized by conversation, not a searchable list of reusable prompt templates you can insert on demand. Spaces set context for one ongoing research project, not a shortcut for the twenty different query formats you reuse across every project.
So the default workaround is the same one most people land on: scroll back through old Threads trying to remember exactly how you phrased the query that worked, or keep a running doc of "good Perplexity prompts" and copy-paste from it before every new search. Both work. Both also cost real time, every day — and neither one follows you when you switch to ChatGPT or Claude to double-check something.
This is exactly the gap a dedicated Perplexity prompt manager extension is built to close: a place to save your best research prompts once, find them instantly, and insert them without leaving the search box.
Here's the actual workflow, and it's the whole product in one sentence: open perplexity.ai, click into the search box, type //, and a small palette appears above your cursor listing your saved prompts.
Type a few letters to filter by name or tag, use the arrow keys, hit Enter, and the full prompt lands in the search box with your cursor positioned wherever you set it. The whole thing takes about two seconds — faster than remembering the exact phrasing that worked last time.
Getting prompts into your library is just as low-friction:
A dedicated keyboard shortcut also opens the palette without typing the trigger characters, for anyone who prefers not to touch the mouse.
Most research prompts aren't unique each time — they're the same structure with a topic or set of options swapped in. That's what PromptDock's {{variables}} templates are for. Save a prompt like:
Insert it in Perplexity with //, and PromptDock prompts you to fill in option_a, option_b, and use_case before it drops the finished prompt into the search box. One saved template now covers every comparison you ever ask Perplexity to research — laptops or vendors, tools or strategies — instead of you hand-editing the same paragraph from memory each time.
Most people who use Perplexity for research are also using at least one other model to draft, summarize, or code with what they found. Switching tools shouldn't mean losing your prompt library, so PromptDock doesn't scope it to one site. The exact same // trigger and the exact same saved prompts work across:
Save a research-comparison template once in Perplexity, and it's already sitting there the next time you open Claude to turn the findings into a report. For the fuller case on why this matters day to day, see our guide on reusing prompts across every AI tool, and if you want the full landscape of the category, how the best AI prompt managers of 2026 compare.
PromptDock stores your prompts in Chrome's own local extension storage, on your device. There is no PromptDock server your prompts get sent to, no sign-up flow, no email required to start. That matters for research work in particular — a lot of Perplexity searches touch competitive research, unpublished analysis, or client-specific questions you'd rather not have sitting in a third-party's cloud. A 2026 privacy review of AI browser extensions found that over half collect user data of some kind; PromptDock's local-first design means there's simply nothing to collect.
<all_urls>.If you're evaluating whether a prompt manager extension is even the right approach versus a plain notes doc, our complete guide to saving AI prompts walks through every method honestly, including the trade-offs of each.
Group prompts by project or research area, and filter with tags when the palette list grows past a couple dozen.
Keep your daily drivers at the top of the palette so they're the first thing you see, before you even type a filter.
Move your whole library in or out as JSON — useful for backups, or migrating from another tool or a notes doc.
Open the palette from anywhere in the page with a shortcut, no need to type // first.
Highlight any text on any page — including a Perplexity answer you want to reuse as a prompt format later — and save it in two clicks.
No network requests, no cloud dependency. The palette renders instantly because it's reading from local storage.
Free starts you at up to 10 saved prompts, forever, no card and no account. Every fresh install also unlocks the full Pro feature set — unlimited prompts, templates, sync — for a 7-day trial, so you can decide with the real thing in hand rather than a stripped demo.
No subscription. Pay $19 once, keep Pro forever.
Stop retyping the same Perplexity prompts. Install PromptDock, save your first prompt, and press // in perplexity.ai — it takes less time than reading this sentence again. Add to Chrome — it's free →No. Perplexity has Threads and a Library of past searches, but no way to save a named research prompt and re-insert it with a shortcut. That's the gap PromptDock fills.
Install PromptDock, save a prompt (typed in, imported, or captured with right-click → Save to PromptDock on any page), then open perplexity.ai and type // in the search box. A searchable palette opens right there; pick a prompt and it's inserted, ready to run.
Yes. PromptDock is one local prompt library that works the same way — type // — in Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral, Poe and Google AI Studio.
No. Prompts are stored locally in Chrome's extension storage on your device. There's no PromptDock account and no PromptDock server. You can export your library to a JSON file anytime for your own backup.
Yes — the free plan stores up to 10 prompts forever, no card required. Every install also unlocks every Pro feature (unlimited prompts, templates, sync) for a 7-day trial. Pro afterward is a single $19 one-time payment, not a subscription.