Is there anything that could help me memorise the argument order of the ln command?

I’ll take anything from little helper phrases over shell extensions to replacements written in Rust. I only use the command occasionally, but I need a fool-proof solution. Do you have any tricks to get it right?

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    8 hours ago

    All this stuff about source and destination and target or whatever hasn’t helped me because those terms are too confusing when it comes to what they do with links. I like to think of it as hitching a new car onto a train. ln is the locomotive, the car that’s already there comes next, and then you link the new one to it.