I've just started to use anki (so I've been thinking about this topic a lot).
What I plan to do is put my favorite motivational quotations on there. You could just use quotations in general as they are already short and they lend themselves easily to cloze deletions.
I've also got a book of proverbs. I've been going through it and using anki for the ones I like. Proverbs are also good because there has been a lot of research on embodied cognition recently and how visual images are much easier to remember. If you can get good at looking at concepts and then thinking of images/proverbs that illustrate the concept well, you will be well on your way to becoming a great writer. Even better, you'll become a great thinker because clear writing is clear thinking.
So, have you been doing this? What do you think of it now?
(I'm considering doing about the same for quotes)
Spaced repetition is a powerful learning tactic, and Anki is a good tool for it. There are some LW-relevant Anki decks here. But I wish there were more.
Which sets of knowledge are (1) likely useful to LWers, and (2) straightforward to encode into Anki decks without needing to be familiar with that field?
Some examples:
Which other sets of knowledge would you like to see Ankified? Please link to the actual knowledge set you'd like to see encoded.