This is an experimental thing I came up with: What if it acted like a normal menu, but, when you select the category, it would show you different commonly used options, like using a healing spell or magic restoring potion, in which you could then select the category again in order to access the full menu?
This is being designed for my own RPG, as well as Adventures of Licky, a collab between various people. This is just a quick proof-of-concept, and the real version will be much cleaner.