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I agree with your point on investing in a good IDE. In the Jetbrains family, a game changer for me was "tapping the shift key twice in quick succession". This brings up an input box that can fuzzy-find classes/structs, files, "symbols" (methods, constants), git branches, and kick off IDE actions like refactoring. If enabled, you can even find database tables, functions, and commands that were pulled from the project's datasources. Sort of a combination between macOS' spotlight and Emacs dwim-style operations (short for "do what I mean"). You can use tab once the input appears to switch what type of thing it searches for.

This feature has saved me a lot of time for some IDE features I don't use often enough to have memorized a keyboard shortcut. It's the same overlay that appears if you hit CTRL-N (CMD-N on macOS) to search for classes/structs project wide.