Fancy Note (CRT)

Every workflow eventually needs a comment, and ComfyUI's stock "Note" is a drab little box you'll stop noticing in about a day. Fancy Note (CRT) is the same idea with a makeover: a styled text card that renders your note in a big custom font with a glow effect, so the note actually catches your eye when you come back to a graph three weeks later.

Reach for it when you're handing workflows to other people - which, in ComfyUI culture, means exporting the PNG and letting them drag it back in. A note that says "change the seed here" in glowing purple is worth a thousand words in a Reddit post, because it survives the round trip in the workflow metadata.

What you set

The node takes exactly one visible input: a multiline text field. That's it. Everything else is hidden front-end chrome. The JavaScript that renders the card exposes a few widgets for presentation: font size, text color, and a glow color, all defaulting to that trademark neon purple (#7300ff). Fonts are picked from a set bundled with the pack - you'll find display faces like Cocogoose and Nexa alongside plainer ones, so you can match the vibe of your workflow or just make the warning text unmissable.

There are no outputs and no data flows through it. It's a pure OUTPUT_NODE that returns nothing, which is exactly what you want from a comment. You can drop it anywhere on the canvas without touching a single wire.

Install

It comes as part of CRT-Nodes, so it's a pack install, not a standalone node:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/PGCRT/CRT-Nodes.git
pip install -r CRT-Nodes/requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI afterward. ComfyUI Manager users can just search CRT-Nodes and hit install; the node lives under CRT/Utils/UI in the menu.

Troubleshooting

The one annoyance people hit: because the styling lives in js/Fancy_Note_Node.js, an update to the pack sometimes leaves your browser running the old script. If your notes suddenly render as plain text or the styling widget vanishes, do a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R) and reload the workflow.

Also worth knowing: the fancy font set only matters when the JS loads correctly. If CRT-Nodes itself fails to import at startup - a broken audio dependency like librosa or openai-whisper in the pack's requirements is the classic cause - every node in the pack disappears from your menu, Fancy Note included. The console log tells you what tripped. Fix the import, restart, and the note comes back.

It's a small thing, but "readable, pretty annotation that survives export" is a genuinely useful small thing in a platform where workflows are shared as images. If you distribute graphs at all, this is the note node to use.