I've been satisfied with just using multiple tabs in Terminal.app in OS X, but I'm curious if anyone has switched from that solution to screen and wouldn't go back? (for local use in particular)
It's also great if you want to run something big - say a job that would take 5 hours. I'm free to do whatever I want without fear that killing my ssh session will also kill the job.
The monitor function can also notify you when there's activity or 30 sec. silence in a window, too. :)
1) It's obvious why you'd want this for remote sessions, and I want a consistent feel whether I'm sshing into remote machines or just on my local machine.
2) I like to allocate a different screen session for each project. I can use the Terminal.app tabs to differentiate between these and between remote sessions on other machines. I could technically use multiple Terminal.app windows instead, but meh.
One thing I've found to be annoying: I can't get gnuplot to work from within a screen window (using the default AquaTerm output).
In screen I use ^a, " to get a list of screens, then j/k to pick a screen. That may not seem like a win, but it keeps my fingers on the home keys, and feels smoother.
That and the fact that I split windows in screen fairly often means I won't go back to terminal tabs...