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Perplexed Citations Arrive Ready to Publish

Raw source lists stop landing in your notes, and every citation now names its date, publisher, real headline and provider.

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Perplexed Citations Arrive Ready to Publish

Why Care?

A generated note should be ready to publish. Ours weren't: models copied a raw ## Retrieved sources block into the top of the note, and every citation at the bottom needed hand-editing to name its date and publisher.

Now the block stays out of the note, and each citation arrives complete.

What's New?

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[^F1]: 2019, Sep 10. [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/). [Samsara raises $300 million in new growth capital…](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/…). Generated: 2026, Nov 01. [Fireround](https://fireround.dev) API response.
[4]: 2026, Oct 28. [thetrucker.com](https://www.thetrucker.com/). [Samsara expands AI fleet management tools…](https://www.thetrucker.com/…). Updated: 2026, Oct 30. Generated: 2026, Nov 01. [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) API response.

  • One citation format everywhere. Fireround, Exa and Perplexity sources now share it: published date, publisher, title, Updated: when it differs, Generated:, then the provider.

  • Real headlines. Fireround citations use the page's own headline and publisher, which its records carried all along, in place of a label like "Samsara growth capital".

  • No more raw sources block. The prompt tells the model not to repeat its list, and Perplexed removes any copy that gets through. Prose a model wrote under that heading stays.

  • Cleaner links. Tracking parameters like utm_* and gclid come off, and real parameters stay.

Fixed

Dates could land a day early. new Date('2019-09-10') reads as midnight UTC, so anywhere west of Greenwich the citation said Sep 09. A stated date now stays that date in every time zone. This also corrects dates in the older Perplexity citation path, which shares the helper.

Why "Generated", Not "Accessed"

We first wrote Accessed:, then changed it. "Accessed" says a person went to the page, and nobody did: a tool retrieved it during a run. Generated: is the date of that run, and Accessed stays available for citations a person actually read.

Good to Know

  • Existing notes don't change until you re-run them, and a re-run replaces any citations you've edited by hand.

  • Publisher names come from a short list. PR Newswire and TechCrunch get proper names, a company's own site shows the company, and everything else shows its domain.

  • Perplexity shortens some titles, ending them in ..., and those stay shortened for now. Fetching the page would fix that, and we haven't built it.

  • Tested by unit tests and real Fireround data from a note, but not yet by a full run inside Obsidian.