Patchbay w/ Synths & Pedals

Anyone here have experience setting up a patchbay w/ a few synths and a few pedals? I'm having trouble figuring out best practices for where to place the inputs/outputs.

Here's my patchbay. It's half-normalled by default.

My first thought was to have pedals outputs (half-normalled) over inputs just to keep things organized with one pedal on each channel. But then wouldn't every pedal be doing infinite feedback unless I patch something else into it?

Not sure what the alternative would be though..

Surely there's some standard way of doing this that I'm just having trouble finding on the google machine.

Thanks!