my phone that a video encode had completed when I was at one of my daughter&#8217;s softball games. I like the idea that my Mac can reach out and find me if it needs me.</p>

<p>Now, the app you want to notify you needs to support Growl for this to work. (I had to open HandBrake&#8217;s preferences and change its notification setting to Growl before it would work, for instance.) But once I did that, I was receiving notifications that my video encoding job had finished, right on my Apple Watch.<a href="#fn:p