Usually I fix my workflow with Elisp, which works well, but when I need something to work system wide I tend to fall back onto C or shell scripts. The most recent example is probably mkskel, that I use to create simple project skeletons (I have collected a few here, but there's still a lot to be done). I end up just having to type



to generate a latex article with all the usual usepackage's and a CC0 license file. Works quite well.