diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 8bc224d..2f0e210 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-use serde::Deserialize;
+use serde::{Deserialize,Serialize};
 use std::fs::read_to_string;
 
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Deserialize,Serialize,Debug)]
 pub struct Config {
     pub output_dir: String,
     pub src_dir: String,
@@ -9,11 +9,17 @@ pub struct Config {
     pub emoji_config: Option<EmojiConfig>,
 }
 
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Deserialize,Serialize,Debug)]
 pub struct EmojiConfig {
     pub emoji_web_directory: String,
     pub emoji_local_directory: String,
 }
+
+impl Default for Config {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Config { output_dir: "output".to_string() , src_dir: "md_src".to_string(), templates_dir: "templates".to_string(), emoji_config: None }
+    }
+}
 pub fn read_config() -> Config {
     let config_string = read_to_string("mlem.toml").expect("mlem.toml config not found");
     toml::from_str(&config_string).unwrap()
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 5f77294..fd6badd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,22 @@ pub mod config;
 pub mod emoji;
 pub mod index;
 use mlem::*;
+use std::env;
 
-fn main() {
+fn main(){
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+
+    if args.len() == 1 {
+        generate();
+    } else if args[1] == "create" {
+        create_default_env()
+    } else {
+        eprintln!("Option not recognized");
+        std::process::exit(1);
+    }
+}
+
+fn generate() {
     let config = config::read_config();
     let raw_files = read_src_files(&config.src_dir);
     let mut post_index: Vec<index::BlogPost> = Vec::new();
@@ -36,3 +50,14 @@ fn main() {
     std::fs::write(format!("{}/index.html", config.output_dir), index)
         .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("Error writing index"));
 }
+
+fn create_default_env() {
+    println!("Writing a default mlem.toml");
+    let config = config::Config::default();
+    let toml_config = toml::to_string(&config).unwrap();
+    std::fs::write("mlem.toml", toml_config).unwrap();
+    println!("Creating default directorys");
+    std::fs::create_dir(config.output_dir).unwrap();
+    std::fs::create_dir(config.src_dir).unwrap();
+    std::fs::create_dir(config.templates_dir).unwrap();
+}