game developer, yuri enthusiast, your beloved problematic girlfriend
I like to use this as a mnemonic:
[this part looks like a button so it's what you click]
(btw this is the url)
I use a different one: it's the opposite of what you think it should be.
Like, it feels more natural to have text in round parentheses because those are used for text the most.
If you’re gathering mnemonics, I rely on the reference URL syntax to re-infer it every time.
[example][] lets you write a footnote that defines the URL, [example]: http://example.com.[this also][example] refers back to that same footnote URL.It clicked for me when I started to think of it as a function call with the parameter going in the paranthesis as per usual:
[name](parameter)
the thing that makes me remember it is just that it was inspired by the fact that people would reference links in email using parentheses, since markdown was inspired by what people were already doing in email to fake rich text. so it’s like uh:
this is just like that one video i saw the other day (https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ), you should watch it!
lol thank you everyone for your mnemonics, this is genuinely very helpful