Desaturating digital negatives

I want to thank someone, but I don't remember who it should be. I spent a good deal of time yesterday making a digital negative from a difficult 120 b&w film negative. I was very happy with the way it turned out, but just before I was about to dislocate my shoulder patting myself on the back, I realized that I have incorporated desaturating the file as a first step in my work flow. I've been doing this for months now, and it's made all the difference in my results. I know I learned this trick on hybrid (along with countless other gems) and just want to say, "thank you".