Command palettes in modern editors (usually ctrl/cmd+shift+p) are an excellent solution to this UX problem imo. You can discover some functionality you're look

Command palettes in modern editors (usually ctrl/cmd+shift+p) are an excellent solution to this UX problem imo. You can discover some functionality you're looking for by searching for it and activating it from the palette for the first few times, and if you find the functionality useful enough you can spend a few brain cycles learning/configuring the shortcut to accelerate it. I think a similar paradigm can work for gestures on mobile as well. Some master gesture to open up a searchable list of context sensitive commands, and some mechanism to map new gestures to frequently used commands.