What's new at Dovetail
Everything we've shipped, what's coming next, and a place to suggest what we should build.
What's new
Address change checklist
A comprehensive guide at /address-change-checklist covering every place you need to update an address — personal and business. The same list appears as a personalized section in your plan, with direct links to USPS, IRS, voter registration, and other official forms.
Personalized plan PDF
Download your full plan as a printable PDF — with your move title, dates, intro paragraph, tasks, work blocks, and the Welcome Home note at the end. Filename includes your move title (e.g., dovetail-brooklyn-to-austin-2026-08-14.pdf) for easy filing.
Pets and Kids sections in the address change guide
The “Where to change your address” section now includes Pets (microchip registries, pet insurance, city pet license) for plans with pets, and Kids (school district transfers, daycare, 529 plans, pediatric specialists) for plans with kids. Both shown only when they apply to your move.
PCS Move Checklist
A new guide for military families covering HHG vs PPM, weight allowances, the paperwork that matters, and the things military spouses say they wish they'd known. We're also asking PCS families to help shape the guide — and the future PCS personalization layer — via email.
This updates page
You're reading it. From now on, every meaningful change to Dovetail will land here. If you've used Dovetail and want to know what's new, this is the place.
Plans now match your actual timeline
For shorter moves, plans used to start at “8 weeks until move” regardless of how much time you actually had — which meant a user 30 days out saw tasks meant for a longer planning window. Now plans collapse past-window tasks into a “Start here” front section and pick up where you really are. Plan generation is also noticeably faster.
Tasks collapse for easier scanning
Long sections feel calmer when they're not packed wall-to-wall with text. Task cards now show just the title and checkbox by default — tap to expand for the full details. Each section has an “Expand all” toggle if you'd rather see everything at once.
Contact, Privacy, and Terms pages
Three small but important pages: a Contact page with hello@movedovetail.com (replies usually within a day or two), and Privacy and Terms in plain English, not legal-speak.
Tip jar (buy me a pizza)
Dovetail is free, and we'd like to keep it that way. If a plan helps with your move, you can now buy Bradford a pizza — it covers hosting, AI costs, and the domain. Tips help keep Dovetail free for the next family.
Tier 1 polish pass
Several small upgrades shipped together: a “Pet stuff” category in the box estimator, direct deep links from address-change tasks to USPS, IRS, voter registration, and other government forms, a feedback prompt on the plan page so you can tell us what's working, and a clearer save-URL block with a one-click Copy link button.
Welcome Home message
Your plan now ends with a small calm note acknowledging the move — quiet, personal, and meant to land at the moment you actually need it. The day you're sitting on a floor in a new place.
Brand rename to Dovetail
The product is now called Dovetail. (It was “Move Plan” during the build, but that name was generic enough to confuse both search engines and AI tools.) New name, new tagline: Most move plans are generic; we dovetail yours to fit your life.
About page
A short story about why Dovetail exists — written by Bradford, the person building it. Includes the origin story and the reasoning behind the name (dovetail joints in woodworking).
Tipping calculator and box estimator
Two interactive tools that do real math: estimate the appropriate movers' tip given crew size, hours, and service quality; estimate how many boxes and supplies you'll need given your space size and what you own.
Eight new guides and tools
A full guide library shipped: the Moving Checklist (week-by-week), How to Pack for a Move (room-by-room), How to Move (universal sequence), Moving Out Checklist (for renters), Tipping Movers (with calculator), Box Estimator (with supplies and cost estimate), and a free downloadable PDF moving checklist.
Dovetail launches
The first version of Dovetail goes live: a no-auth, URL-based moving planner with a four-step wizard and a week-by-week plan that lives at a unique URL you bookmark. Built in 48 hours with Lovable + Claude. Personalized intro paragraphs, generated tasks, and check-off interactions all working.
Calendar export, move titles, and work blocks
Your plan now exports to your calendar as an .ics file. You can give your move a title (auto-suggested as “From → To” but customizable). And large packing tasks break into manageable work blocks for 2BR+ moves.
Coming soon
Coming soon
A few things we're actively building:
- Email your plan to yourself — a simple way to keep the URL where you can find it later. Optional weekly check-in email with this week's upcoming tasks.
- PCS personalization for military families — branch-aware, OCONUS/CONUS-aware, weight-allowance-aware. We're holding the build until we've talked to more military families first (see the PCS guide if you can help).
- More guides — cross-country moves, downsizing, first-time movers, moving with pets specifically.
- What you suggest — submissions to the form below shape what gets built next.
Have an idea?
Dovetail is built by one person, with input from the people who use it. If something would have helped your move — a guide we don't have, a feature that's missing, a calculator that doesn't exist yet — write it down below. Same goes for the words: if something we wrote doesn't feel right, tell me. We care about the language too. I read everything. Not every idea ships, but the ones that do usually start here.