Starting a new project
File ▸ New project (Ctrl+N, or New on the toolbar) clears the canvas and starts an empty graph. The graph you had is not lost: it stays in the history of versions, and you can save it to a file first.
How to start
- Choose File ▸ New project.
- If the canvas holds a graph that is not saved to a project file as it stands, the app asks: "Start a new project? The graph on the canvas is not saved to a project file as it stands. A new project clears the canvas; the current graph stays in the history of graph versions, and Save project keeps it as a file."
- Cancel to go back and save first (File ▸ Save project), or Start new project.
An empty canvas, or a project you just saved or opened and did not change since, is cleared without asking.
What a new project keeps
- The canvas is empty, a tour or a replay ends, an open subgraph is left.
- The library, the settings, the assistant and the chat stay. Nodes you copied stay in the app's clipboard, so you can paste them into the new graph.
- The result of the last check is cleared.
- The old graph is one step back in the history:
Ctrl+Zbrings it back, and Graph ▸ Replay history shows it.
What happens when you close the app
The graph on the canvas is kept by the app and comes back at the next start, saved or not. A project file is only needed to keep a copy elsewhere, to share it, or to have several projects.
The workflow format of a new project
A new project starts in workflow format 1, the format a recent ComfyUI saves. So Graph ▸ Make a subgraph from selection (Ctrl+G) works in it.
A workflow in the old format (0.4) cannot hold subgraphs. To use its nodes in subgraphs, select them, copy them (Ctrl+C), start a new project and paste them there (Ctrl+V). See Subgraphs and Copy and paste.