Simple Text 🐑

Here's the thing to know before you go looking for its inputs and outputs: it doesn't have any. Zero required parameters, zero optional ones, zero outputs. That's not a documentation gap, it's the whole point - Simple Text isn't a node that processes data, it's a sticky note you can drop anywhere on your canvas to label a section of your graph. The pack's own credits are unusually direct about where it came from: it's a re-implementation of rgthree-comfy's Label node, right down to the transparent LiteGraph shell and the no-op INPUT_TYPES that's why this node has an empty schema in the first place - there's genuinely nothing to wire up.

Why this exists at all. rgthree-comfy is the pack almost every ComfyUI install has, precisely because large workflows stop being readable past a certain size, and a plain text label you can place anywhere - not attached to a node's title, not fighting for space in a comment box - is one of the cheapest fixes for that. The community's own running joke about cable management and graph legibility is real: once you're past thirty or forty nodes, you start needing to mark "this section handles the LoRA stack" or "don't touch this, it's the working config" in a way that survives scrolling and zooming. That's what this node is for. MieNodes reimplements the same mechanism rather than depending on rgthree-comfy as an external dependency, so you get the annotation capability even if you don't have rgthree-comfy installed.

How you actually use it. Drop it on the canvas like any node. Instead of wiring inputs, you type directly into it and resize it like a text box - it renders as a floating label rather than a boxed node with sockets, which is what "transparent shell" means in practice: no visible node border competing with your actual workflow, just text sitting where you put it. Use it to mark sections, leave yourself a reminder about which API key a connector needs, or note why a particular value is set the way it is for future-you or anyone you hand the workflow to.

Install. Search "ComfyUI_MieNodes" in ComfyUI Manager, or cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/MieMieeeee/ComfyUI-MieNodes and restart ComfyUI. No dependencies - it's pure frontend rendering plus a Python shell that does nothing at execution time, since there's nothing to execute.

Troubleshooting. If you're expecting to connect a wire to or from it, that's the mistake - this node participates in the graph visually, not functionally, so there's no socket to find. If it looks wrong or won't render - stacked text, unresponsive resizing - that's worth checking against ComfyUI's frontend version before assuming the node is broken: canvas-annotation nodes across the ecosystem (rgthree's Label included) had a rough patch when ComfyUI's Nodes 2.0 Vue rewrite landed, because anything that draws directly onto the LiteGraph canvas rather than through the standard node-rendering path is exactly the kind of thing a frontend rewrite breaks first. If annotations render oddly on a recent ComfyUI build, that's the likely cause, not something wrong with your workflow.