Don't use too many aliases, a dozen generic ones should do it, learn to use reverse history search (usually mapped to Ctrl-r) instead. Once you get used to it,

Don't use too many aliases, a dozen generic ones should do it, learn to use reverse history search (usually mapped to Ctrl-r) instead. Once you get used to it, your brain just triggers this combination whenever the command is more complex than let's say `ls -al`. This means you have to change some habits like to `tail` your logs with absolute paths, so you don't need to `cd` into the folder first, etc.