diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 335af5c..755e7d7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,3 +19,5 @@ sgmllib3k==1.0.0
 six==1.16.0
 soupsieve==2.3.2.post1
 Unidecode==1.3.6
+
+python-slugify
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 3eca4d4..d36edf5 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -140,4 +140,33 @@ def publish(c):
 
 def pelican_run(cmd):
     cmd += ' ' + program.core.remainder  # allows to pass-through args to pelican
-    pelican_main(shlex.split(cmd))
\ No newline at end of file
+    pelican_main(shlex.split(cmd))
+
+
+@task
+def new_post(c):
+    import os
+    from slugify import slugify
+    iso_date = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
+    year, month, day = iso_date.split("-")
+    title = input("Title: ")
+    slug = slugify(title)
+    filename = f"{iso_date}_{slug}.rst"
+    title_header = "#" * len(title)
+    template = f"""{title}
+{title_header}
+:date: {datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')}
+:author: tyrel
+:category: ????
+:tags: ????
+:slug: {slug}
+:status: draft
+
+    """
+    base = f"content/blog/{year}/{month}"
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(base), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(f"{base}/{filename}", "w") as f:
+        f.write(template)
+    print(f"Wrote: {base}/{filename}")
+
+