Project Setting JK🐉

If you generate a lot, your output folder becomes a landfill fast: hundreds of ComfyUI_00001_, ComfyUI_00002_ images with no way to tell which project or run they came from. Project Setting JK is a small bookkeeping node that gives your saves a name - a project prefix, an image-name pattern, a folder path, and a seed to anchor a run.

How it works

You set a project_name (say portrait_study), an image_name pattern like v%counter_%seed_%time, and a path_name pattern like %date. The node returns:

• Image_Name - the project name joined with your image pattern (portrait_study_v%counter_%seed_%time).
• Path_Name - the project name joined with your path pattern (portrait_study/%date).
• Counter - an integer you can use as a run identifier.

Wire those strings into a save node that supports naming patterns (JakeUpgrade's save nodes, Image Saver, and similar all take filename/path strings), and your outputs land in per-project, per-day folders with recognizable names instead of one flat dump.

Two honest caveats from how it's built:

• This node returns patterns; the substitution happens downstream. The %counter, %seed, %time variables aren't expanded here - the node hands back the pattern string and a Counter value, and the save node does the expansion. If your save node doesn't understand %counter, you'll get literal %counter in filenames.
• Counter currently just echoes your seed. The source returns the seed you typed as the Counter output. So it's a stable per-run identifier, but don't expect it to auto-increment per image - that behavior (if any) belongs to the save node's own counter logic.

Inputs and outputs

• project_name - the project label.
• image_name - filename pattern (supports %counter, %seed, %time).
• path_name - folder pattern (supports %date).
• seed - an integer for the run.
• Image_Name (STRING), Path_Name (STRING), Counter (INT).

Installing it

Ships in ComfyUI-JakeUpgrade:

• ComfyUI Manager → search "JakeUpgrade" → install → restart.
• Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/jakechai/ComfyUI-JakeUpgrade
cd ComfyUI-JakeUpgrade
pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows portable: run install.bat or ../../../python_embeded/python.exe -s -m pip install -r requirements.txt.

Common issues

• Filenames come out with literal %counter. That means the downstream save node doesn't do pattern substitution - check that your save node supports the variables, because this node doesn't expand them.
• The seed is a random seed, not a sequence number. Counter equals whatever seed you typed. Set it deliberately per run if you want it to differentiate runs.
• It's a convenience, not a necessity. If you never re-run projects or only save interactively, this node is dead weight. It earns its place in batch/API workflows where organized outputs matter.

It's the least glamorous node in the pack - a string combiner with a seed - but it's the kind of discipline that keeps a workflow reproducible three weeks later when you're hunting for "the good run from that project."