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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    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.