# khipu > Sovereign P2P "notes to oblivion" — local-first, content-addressed, in Rust. `khipu` (Quechua: *knotted-cord record*) is a sovereign note system: local-first, content-addressed, synced peer-to-peer over the `card`/`chasqui` layer (LAN + WAN + relay/NAT traversal, UDP & DHT discovery, encrypted identity). Notes are designed to be let go of as much as kept — a record that forgets on purpose.
the canvas that orders the chaos by attention — notes as a living constellation