diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f062cec5..4fa3d65a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## v0.5.0
 
 - Moving main Grunt Drupal Tasks library code from Gruntfile.js to bootstrap.js
+- Adding integration with OS notification features with grunt-notify
 - Adding documentation for use with a continuous integration system
 - Many dependency updates
 - Other minor improvements
diff --git a/CONFIG.md b/CONFIG.md
index 238307f6..e6c8dd2e 100644
--- a/CONFIG.md
+++ b/CONFIG.md
@@ -230,6 +230,21 @@ This is an example of the settings for Drush tasks:
 **drush.make.args**: An array of arguments to pass to Drush for the make
 operation.
 
+### Notify Settings
+
+This is an example of the settings for the notify feature:
+
+```
+{
+  "notify": {
+    "threshold": 3
+  }
+}
+```
+
+**notify.threshold**: Minimum number of seconds a task must execute for a
+notification to be triggered when the task ends.
+
 ### Theme Settings
 
 This is an example of the settings for theme tasks:
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b51c370a..33f17825 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -5,25 +5,26 @@
   "main": "bootstrap.js",
   "dependencies": {
     "grunt": "~0.4.5",
+    "grunt-available-tasks": "~0.5.0",
     "grunt-composer": "~0.4.4",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.6.0",
-    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.7.0",
     "grunt-contrib-compass": "^1.0.1",
+    "grunt-contrib-compress": "~0.12.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.7.0",
     "grunt-contrib-symlink": "~0.3.0",
     "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.6.1",
     "grunt-drush": "~0.0.3",
     "grunt-mkdir": "~0.1.1",
     "grunt-newer": "~0.8.0",
-    "grunt-shell": "^1.1.1",
+    "grunt-notify": "git+https://github.com/grayside/grunt-notify.git#0.5.0",
+    "grunt-parallel": "^0.3.1",
     "grunt-parallel-behat": "~0.3.6",
-    "grunt-phplint": "~0.0.5",
     "grunt-phpcs": "git+https://github.com/grayside/grunt-phpcs.git#0.3.0",
-    "grunt-contrib-compress": "~0.12.0",
+    "grunt-phplint": "~0.0.5",
     "grunt-phpmd": "~0.1.0",
-    "time-grunt": "^1.0.0",
-    "grunt-parallel": "^0.3.1",
-    "grunt-available-tasks": "~0.5.0",
-    "lodash": "^2.4.1"
+    "grunt-shell": "^1.1.1",
+    "lodash": "^2.4.1",
+    "time-grunt": "^1.0.0"
   },
   "keywords": [
     "build",
@@ -33,6 +34,6 @@
   ],
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
-    "url" : "https://github.com/phase2/grunt-drupal-tasks.git"
+    "url": "https://github.com/phase2/grunt-drupal-tasks.git"
   }
 }
diff --git a/tasks/notify.js b/tasks/notify.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..df28983b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/notify.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+module.exports = function(grunt) {
+
+  /**
+   * Define "notify" tasks.
+   */
+  if (grunt.option('quiet') || process.env.GRUNT_DRUPAL_QUIET) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-notify');
+  var guessProjectName = require('grunt-notify/lib/util/guessProjectName');
+
+  grunt.config('notify_hooks', {
+    options: {
+      // title needs to be reset to the same as the grunt-notify default because
+      // the guessing mechanism thinks that grunt-drupal-tasks is the project.
+      title: guessProjectName(),
+      // Only trigger success messages if the process has taken longer than the
+      // configured notifyThreshold.
+      success: true,
+      threshold: grunt.config.get('config.notify.threshold') || 10,
+      duration: 5
+    }
+  });
+
+  // This is required if you use any options.
+  grunt.task.run('notify_hooks');
+
+};