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Originally Posted by Martian
It'll come with practice. There are no shortcuts I'm aware of. Try to remember where middle C is on either clef, along with the C above or below. That helped me, since it at least allows me to know at a glance what octave I'm in.
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This is what I do with my students. Be able to recognise all the "C"s on the clefs you are reading from at a glance. Do this exercise a couple times a day for a few days, finding "C"s all over any score. A few days later, add another note, say a "G"... so now you are looking for all "C"s and "G"s. Intergrate this into your other practice and you'll find yourself recognising "C"s and "G"s quite quickly. Then add another note.
In the meantime, also learn to recognise intervals. Notes on adjacent lines or spaces are two notes apart, for example, and so on. Learn to recognise adjacent notes. Two lines apart is a fifth, etc.