Image and link syntax in Markdown are pretty similar and it can be hard to remember which text goes where. To help me, I have a few handy mnemonics.
As a reminder, here is the syntax for a link:
[link text](https://website.com)
And here is the syntax for an image:
To remember what goes in the square bracket vs. the parentheses, I use alliteration:
“Put the path in parentheses.”
Process of elimination, the alt/link text then must go in the square bracket.
If rhyming works better for you, I also sometimes think:
“Put the URL in the curl.”
This requires you to say URL as “Earl” and not “You Are Elle” and I know that makes some people cringe and die. Also parens are not curly braces, but are curled in comparison to a bracket? Not perfect, but it works for me.
To remember the exclamation point for an image, I started thinking about someone saying “Cheese!” before a photo is taken. But even better, I now think about a camera shutter sound.
So do you remember that band whose name was just three exclamation points? How do you even pronounce “!!!”? I guess they said it could be any short sound repeated three times, but most people would say Chk Chk Chk. So I think about the exclamation point preceding a Markdown image as a “chk” sound of a camera shutter.
Or if you think of an exclamation point as a “bang” already, you might think about the loud bang of old-timey flash powder.
So anyway, no clue if this will work for you, but I don’t ever get confused or mix up link and image Markdown anymore so that’s cool! Ok bye.