1. A computing device, comprising: a memory and a processor that are respectively configured to store and execute instructions, including instructions for causing the computing device to: track a gesture, wherein the gesture represents a user interaction with the computing device; associate the gesture with a data item; identify the gesture from amongst gestures of a set of gestures; and determine, from a lookup-up table, a global term to assign to the data item based on the gesture and a corresponding data-type, wherein the look-up table associates gestures with global terms based on a data-type corresponding to each gesture.