A digital magazine application executing on a client device is configured to receive content items from a user of the client device or from a digital magazine server, generate pages in a digital magazine by processing the received content, and provide the pages to a user of the client device. The client device generates a new personalized digital magazine for a user by enabling the user to select content items stored in the user's local storage of the client device and to create stories about the selected content items. The personalized digital magazine includes the user's own content items, corresponding stories and content items recommended by the digital magazine server, which share common characteristics with the user's own content items. The client device can also include a user's own content items into a magazine currently presented to the user.