@Hugh200: As I discussed with @Axiem below, I simply value having my data unchained to a particular application, for all the numerous scenarios in which the app isn't available to me. Scrivener saves every item in its binder as a standard RTF document. And as you say, those documents are available to applications…

@Axiem: I'd want to for several reasons. I may want to use another application for a particular task (a feature which Scrivener itself supports, but only while it's open). I may want to send a file to a friend for editing or review, without having to open the app and go through the export process. And I definitely…

@Axiem: You can. The issue is that they're unidentifiable as files. They're numbered (7.rtf, 11.rtf, etc.) rather than named, and they're not organized in folders as you would expect. It just seems like a strange choice; I'm not sure what they would have lost from sorting them normally.

@Axiem: Aha. So there's no technical reason why they couldn't be stored as standalone RTF files? If that's the case, I'm off to make a suggestion to the developer...

I have a few Mac-using friends who swear by Scrivener, but I've always been skeptical of it - from what I could see in screenshots and demos, it looked like another sort of "everything bucket" of the kind Adam talked about last week.

@Steve Rubel: I hope so, 'cause I work the same way these days.

This seems like a good place to ask an open question: if you're someone who dislikes threaded email, why? I've never fully understood the reasons.

@gerrrg: Sadly, it doesn't help as much as you'd expect.

@ninja_togo: A 2007 Dell Inspiron B130. 1.7 GHz and 2GB RAM.

I have no real problem with how OO looks. I just want it to start up in less time than it takes me to go cook a meal.

@OptionalJoystick: Amen.

I'm still happy with Firefox, albeit in an increasingly Chrome-like configuration. Personal Menu, NASA Night Launch and mouse gestures have kept me from switching. Congratulations to Chrome on its majority, though.

@mobycat: As I said, just not enough so to lure me away. It's a nice feature, but not something that's ever made a real difference to me. My tabs don't crash much.

My feelings about IE9 are exactly the same as my feelings about Chrome: it looks like a perfectly good browser. So far, it has nothing unique or superior, at least not enough to lure me away from Firefox, but if they're working on such a thing, more power to them.

@Nihilexistentialist: No, no - "Album by Year." Sorts first by artist, then by album, but the albums are listed in the order of release, rather than alphabetically. I also haven't seen a player that handles compilation albums like iTunes does; the closest you can get is to define an arbitrary "album artist," and even…

@Nihilexistentialist: It's a lot of little things, I admit. I like the "Album by Year" sorting method. I like that it can ignore punctuation and minor words for sorting purposes (e.g. "A Perfect Circle" is listed under P, not A). It can handle a good number of formats with its built-in converter tool. And it's very…

@linuxpirates: I've tried Songbird again for each of their big releases. I still feel like it's missing some important pillars - most notably, CD ripping.

@freewarepharmacy: Will do.

I do keep coming back to iTunes. I've tried foobar, MediaMonkey, Winamp and others, but nothing quite meets my requirements for a full replacement.

@Sagan Is My Master: Nope. Not a bit. We're normal folk.