I've created a rather brief update-making script for use with the current system. It doesn't do much, but it does everything I need it to do so far. You can take a look here:
#!/bin/sh LAST=`ls updates/ -1 | tail -n1` NEXT=`echo $LAST + 1 | bc` NFILE=`seq -w $LAST $NEXT | tail -n1` vim updates/$NFILE echo "$NFILE|`date +'%b %d %Y'`|`date +'%l:%M%p'` EST" >> udates