# Citations and assistants run in the background

> Your Day AI assistant continues working when you switch tabs, and new citations show exactly where answers come from in your meeting recordings.

Product updates · Published October 9, 2025, by Michael Pici

Your Day AI assistant now works while you multitask and see exactly where answers come from.

![A browser with a Day AI Assistant tab still working while the user switches to a new tab](/resources/images/citations-and-assistants-run-in-the-background/02-background.gif)

*Now your assistant keeps working when you switch tabs*

## Assistant keeps working when you navigate away

You asked for this one a lot: your assistant now continues processing questions even when you switch browser tabs. Ask a complex question, go work on something else, and come back to find your answer ready.  

This means you can fire off multiple questions at once and let Day AI work on all of them simultaneously. No more waiting around or losing progress when you need to multitask.

![An assistant answer about Intellibit feedback with citations linking to timestamped moments in a meeting recording](/resources/images/citations-and-assistants-run-in-the-background/01-citations.webp)

*Citations show sources of information*

## Citations show exactly where information comes from

When Day AI references information from a meeting recording, you'll now see a clickable citation that takes you to the exact moment in the transcript where those words were spoken.  

This builds real trust in your search results – instead of wondering "where did this come from?" you can see and hear the original context in seconds. Sometimes a few seconds of video brings back way more context than reading text alone.

## Available now

Both features are live for all Day AI users.  

Citations currently work for meeting recordings, with email threads and other data sources rolling out next.

Canonical: https://day.ai/resources/citations-and-assistants-run-in-the-background