One VC Wrote An OS for Her Life
Maria Salamanca shares how she uses Airtable, Notion, and Bear to create a complete system to run her life
Nov 25, 2019 · 12 min readUpdated Jul 25, 2026
Maria Salamanca wrote her own operating system.
But it’s not just composed of bits and bytes. It’s a complete system that she’s built to run her life: everything from making sure she’s spending enough quality time with her friends, to making conscious choices about the work projects she spends time on, to doing deep dives into topics that interest her.
She calls it MariaOS, and it’s built with Airtable, Notion, Bear, and a huge dose of her own intelligence and self-discipline.
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