how I might reasonably keep externally-generated notes in my notes

I wasn't sure if keeping externally-generated material directly in my notes was a good idea or not because I worried about dim - assimilation depth -- low.

I'm less concerned now, as long as:

• The writer wrote something close enough to how I would write it
• The note is short and conceptual
• I completely understand it when I first read it, and could explain it back to someone nearly verbatim
• I keep an annotation about the original authorship. Often I just tag page it with "AI says"

Counter example: you might think it would be possible to pull in Andy's note about evergreen notes functioning like spaced repetition since it is short and conceptual, but that falls apart in the "writes something close enough to how I would write it" and "completely understand it when I first read it" areas.

That probably means that for externally-generated material it might make sense to have some kind of a source conversion for assimilation of externally-generated material, like with an agent at the boundary.