Is there an automated way to link these up/down?

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It’s going to take a little bit of background to set up this question; sorry. After reading Scott Scheper’s Antinet Zettelkasten, I decided to structure the general “collection” notes in my vault in a numerical manner that’s semi-similar to an analog zettelkasten. The idea was to use Obsidian’s interface as a supplement to the structure inherent in the notes’ order, rather than as the structure. So if I want to, I can “flip through” my notes.

The way I did this is with sort of a modified, Dewey Decimal-ish numbering system. So, as an example, 4000 is health. (I have four digits so I don’t confuse myself and think it is a Dewey system.) 4600 is nutrition. 4653 is Vitamin A.

Within any given topic, I then have suffixes. So 4653-001, 4653-002, 4653-003, etc. are ALL about vitamin A. (I usually reserve -000 for a definitional note if there is one, and -001 for external link collections, so other related notes start with -002.)

Obviously, this creates a VISUAL inter-relatedness or hierarchy. But I don’t think the graph is going to pick this up.

So here’s the actual question: Is there a simple or automated way to get the system to tag, property-ize, or otherwise indicate the “inheritance” of a topic from a higher “place value” without having to manually add them to every note as I create them?

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If you found a way to automate this, what value would it provide? The number system is useful in a paper system, but when you can search a vault, it seems pointless to me. If you have a “health” MOC, with a dataview query showing all notes with a particular property (e.g., domain:health) you now have a table of contents of health items. It can also show up in other MOCs (or bases).

Create a health base. It shows all health notes. Within that base, create a view for nutrition, and a view for vitamins (or anything else).

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Yes. I second this.
Don’t get me wrong, this shouldn’t be a personal attack. If I am wrong, please elaborate! (As it is a really cool system)

I understand, what the usage for the Zettelkastensystem is, in an analog form. To link things together on paper.
But why not use a tag “Vitamin-A“ or any other property, tag, folder…? I just dont understand the use, if I am using a program, where the primary goal literally is to link/mange things together in a digital way. And you can even use aliases. Or are you printing them all on physical notes? Read lots of posts about this here and I am just not able to see the advantage.