To aid with visualizing what payments apply to which bills, I edit the note and memo fields of my payment transactions after their creation. The note portion shows up in a vendor report under the Description column—e.g., "for bill 000094"

However, I see that (at least as of 3.3, I haven't noticed this earlier) I cannot set the note field to one value of text, and the split's memos to other values. Normally, this is not an issue because I'm paying one bill per payment. I noticed this when paying two bills with a single payment and trying to indicate which payment split was for which bill in the memos (for display when viewing the transaction) and the fact that the entire payment was for both bills in the note field. (for display on the Vendor report)

GnuCash changes the memo to match what is in the note field and if I then edit the memo, it changes the note field to match. I've also tried editing the memos and notes separately in the 'other register' (my cash account) to no avail.

The expected behavior is that the note field and the memo fields are separate and distinct and that they can contain different text and that changing one should not overwrite the other.

The note field should continue to be used to populate the 'Description' column of the Vendor report.

I see no use case or need for making the individual memos match the note field and doing so removes their utility.