Is it a good idea to have your main actions as swipe gestures?

Would it be a good idea to have swipe gestures (such as swipe left to delete and swipe right to archive - mailbox app is a good example) responsible for your app's main tasks? A lot of not so techy people also use handheld tablets these days. Although I plan on adding an introduction to make sure users are introduced to swipes quite early, I am not sure if users will be able to remember them coming back to app after say 10 days.